P1 Exam Dumps : Management Accounting

Demand for two products, A and B is 1,000 units and 2,000 units respectively. Each unit of Product A requires 8 kg of material and each unit of Product B requires 5 kg of material. The maximum availability of material is 17,200 kg. Contribution per unit of A is $10 and per unit of B is $9.

Place the production volumes of Product A and Product B, that will maximize contribution, in the table.

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:

MDS is facing a temporary shortage of Material H which is used to produce all three of its products.

In order to maximise its profitability, which product should be manufactured first?