CIMA Related Exams
P1 Exam
A bakery manager is deciding how many batches of birthday cakes to decorate each day.
Demand for the birthday cakes varies from 12 to 15 batches per day. Each batch decorated and sold earns a contribution of $40 but each batch unsold leads to loss of contribution of $15.
The payoff table below shows the total $ contribution from each of the possibilities:

Based on expected values, the number of batches of birthday cakes the bakery manager should decorate each day is:
EF manufactures and sells three products, X, Y and Z. The following production overhead costs are budgeted for next year:

Required:
Calculate the total budgeted production overhead cost for each product using activity based budgeting.
A company has identified the trend in its sales figures through the regression equation Y = 65.9 + 3.86X, where Y is the sales revenue in thousands of dollars and X is the month number. The average seasonal variation for October is 87%
Calculate the forecast sales revenue for October of Year 6.
Give your answer to the nearest $000.