CIMA Related Exams
P1 Exam
You are a management accounting working for a car manufacturer. The company is publicly listed and has been around for many years.
The company produces 2 products. Car 1 and Car 2. Car 1 sells for £20,000 and Car 2 for £27,000.
Car 1 can be upgraded post production to the 1ZC model for £5,000 and Car 2 to the 2ZC model for £3,500.
Post production upgrade the 1ZC sells for £25,500 and the 2ZCfor £30,000.
The company sources all of its supplies for the same supplier and has access to a large workforce. As a result there are no bottlenecks or limiting factors to production.
Based on the information above the company should...
A company uses a standard costing system.
The company’s sales budget for the latest period includes 1,500 units of a product with a selling price of $400 per unit.
The product has a budgeted contribution to sales ratio of 30%.
Actual sales for the period were 1,630 units at a selling price of $390 per unit.
The actual contribution to sales ratio was 28%.
The sales volume contribution variance for the product for the latest period is:
XY, a not-for-profit charity organization which is funded by public donations, is concerned that it is not making the best use of its available funds. It has carried out a review of its budgeting system and is considering replacing the current system with a zero-based budgeting system.
Select ALL the potential advantages AND disadvantages for the charity of a zero-based budgeting system.