P1 - CHAPTER 10 - KNOWLEDGE CHECK - Relevant Costs and Decision Making - IMAS
P1 - CHAPTER 10 - KNOWLEDGE CHECK - Relevant Costs and Decision Making - IMAS
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This order will require 4,000kgs of rye flour, a regularly used ingredient in
Pattersons. The company has 2,000kgs of this flour in its inventory and
this rye flour was purchased at £2.20 per kg. Due to adverse weather
conditions, the current replacement cost of rye flour is now £2.90 per kg.
If Pattersons Ltd did not proceed with this order, the firm could sell its
inventory of rye flour on the open market and take advantage of the price
increase in this commodity. The sales director reckons that the firm could
get a price of £2.75 per kg for the flour.
£ _______ (Do not use commas when inserting your answer and round
your answer to the nearest whole number)
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45346 (11600)
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The correct answer is: "£11,600"
The rye flour is a
regularly used ingredient in Pattersons and as a result, it will need to
be replaced if this order is to be accepted. This means that the only
relevant cost of using the rye flour is the replacement cost of the full
4,000kg that will be used in production:
4,000kg * £2.90
(replacement cost) = £11,600
40 hours of skilled labour are needed for a special contract. Skilled labour
is scarce and would have to be taken off production of a different product
in order to work on the special contract. The details of the other product
are shown below:
Fixed overheads 20
The skilled workers’ pay rate would not change, regardless of which
product they worked on.
What cost for skilled labour should be included when pricing up the
special contract? $____
466 (8000.00,8000)
Incorrect
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8000.00 (1 Mark)
Existing product earns a contribution per hour of ($120 - $18 - $20 -
$2) / 0.5 hours
= $160
Relevant cost = Contribution forgone PLUS
direct labour cost
= $160 + $40 = $200 per hour
Total cost = $200 x
40 hours = £8,000
$ _______
4635 (945)
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is $945.
Skilled labour can either be
obtained by asking staff to do overtime or by stopping production of
another product, because there is no skilled labour available.
Cost of
overtime = 35 hrs x $18 p/h x 1.5 = $945.
Stop existing production =
labour costs + lost contribution = (35hrs x $18 p/h) + (35hrs x $24
p/h) = $1,470.
Choose the cheapest option which would be paying
staff overtime, therefore $945.
$6,400
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$6,450
$6,700
$7,200
Incorrect
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$7,200 (1 Mark)
The material is in regular use, so even if some is already in inventory
it will need to be replaced at the current purchase price. Any not in
inventory will also have to be purchased, so the relevant cost for all
the material is the replacement cost.
Replacement cost for Q =
1,500 kgs × $4.80 = $7,200
$5,000
$0
$250
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is $0.
The other costs should be ignored as
they are not relevant to the quote.
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$ $ $
Selling Price 50 68 94
Material A 20 30 40
Material B 5 8 10
Labour 10 5 15
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1000 Grapefruits, 2000 Lemons & 500 Limes. (1 Mark)
Contribution/unit 15 25 29
nd st rd
Rank 2 1 3
Production Plan
10,000
€60,000
€8,000
€7,000
€8,500
Incorrect
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FEEDBACK
The answer is €7,000.
It is cheaper to hire the external
consultant for €7,000 rather than pay the €8,500 bonus to the
existing junior consultant. The consultant's salary is not a relevant
cost as the consultant will still be paid even if the project does not
proceed.
L M
Production cost: $ $
Direct material 12 18
Direct labour 25 15
Variable overhead 8 7
Fixed overhead 10 6
____ ____
Total 55 46
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667 L
1250 L
667 M
750 M
Incorrect
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750 M (1 Mark)
Make or buy with limiting factor.
Both components are cheaper to
make than to buy but as there isn’t the production capacity to make
all 3,000 units needed, some must be purchased from the outside
supplier. Use the saving per unit of limiting factor to rank the
products and work out which ones to manufacture to obtain the
biggest saving. Purchase any that can’t be manufactured.
Component L M
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The stock of material A could be sold for $3.80 per kg. S Co. has no other
use for material A other than on this contract, but it could modify it at a
cost of $4.10 per kg and use it as a substitute for material B. Material B is
regularly used by the company and can be bought for $6.80 per kg.
$3,320
$7,230
$12,050
$4,350
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is $7,230.
2,100 kg x *$2.70 + 300 kg x
$5.20 = $7,230.
*The key to answering the question is valuing the
2,100kg of material A S Co. currently holds in stock. By spending
$4.10 on it, S Co. could turn the material into something worth
$6.80. If something will be worth $6.80 when S Co. spends $4.10 on
it, then it is at present worth $2.70. This is the value to S Co. of the
stock.
E1 E2 E3 E4
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Conversion costs 40 65 65 55
Profit 26 14 17 18
The conversion costs include general fixed costs that have been absorbed
using a rate of $30 per machine hour.
The ranking for the most profitable use of the raw materials is to make
product:
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1st E1, 2nd E4, 3rd E2, 4th E3 (1 Mark)
$ $ $ $
Conversion costs 40 65 65 55
15 15 18 18
Material cost 24 33 41 30
Contribution 41 29 35 36
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Milner Inc has been asked to carry out a systems amendment for Klopp
Co. The amendment will require 200 programmer hours, and Milner Inc
has only one programmer who is capable of doing the job.
The programmer is paid €50 per hour. Employers’ NIC and pension
contributions are 15% of salary. Other overheads are absorbed by adding
150% to direct salaries.
The relevant cost of the programmer’s time if Milner Inc carries out the
systems amendment for Klopp Co is €30,000.
True or False?
True
False
Correct
FEEDBACK
The answer is: "True"
The hire of a programmer is the
incremental cost that would be incurred if the programmer works
on the Klopp Co job. It is therefore €30,000.
Sunk costs
Differential costs
Committed costs
Incremental costs
Opportunity costs
Incorrect
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FEEDBACK
The answer is "Incremental costs", "Differential costs"
and "Opportunity costs"
Further
Selling price Selling price
variable
Product after common after further
processing
process processing
cost
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is: M & N.
To work out the optimal
processing plan we need to also consider the extra benefit
compared to the extra cost involved in processing M, N and P
further.
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$ _________ (input answer without commas).
546 (30000)
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is $30,000.
The relevant cost of the
10,000kgs of material A to be included in the quotation is $30,000.
Since material A is in regular use and is readily available in the
market, its relevant cost is the replacement price of $3/kg. So
10,000 kgs × $3/kg = $30,000.
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If the order is to go ahead, the firm will require 300 labour hours in the
period to produce these candles. The current wage rate in Waxmaster is
£9 per hour.
This specific order is machine intensive and will drive the fixed cost of
electricity from £10,000 a period to £13,500. Electricity costs will go
back to £10,000 a period once the order is finished.
£ ________ (Do not use commas when inserting your answer and round
your answer to the nearest whole number)
65465 (25750)
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The correct answer is: "£25,750"
5,000kgs are
required, 500kg is already in inventory and 4,500kg must be
purchased:
500kg in inventory: Opportunity cost = £2,000 or £4 per
kg
4,500kg to be purchased: 4,500kg x £4.50 = £20,250
Raw
material cost: £20,250 + £2,000 = £22,250
Labour cost is nil as the
firm has excess capacity for the period. This job will require 300
labour hours but the question mentions that the company has
excess labour capacity of 400-500 hours per period, which means
there is no incremental labour cost involved in accepting this job.
The increase in the cost of electricity of £3,500 is a relevant cost as
it will be incurred as a direct result of this order. It doesn’t matter
that electricity is deemed a fixed cost, if the cost has risen as a result
of the order and it is a cash outflow, then it is a relevant cost.
Total
cost = £22,250 + £3,500 = £25,750
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The correct answers are:
1. Cost behaviours are known
with certainty
2. The main objective of the decision is to maximise
profit/contribution
3. Information about a decision is complete and
reliable
The main assumptions of relevant costing are:
Cost behaviours are known with certainty (i.e. fixed costs and
variable costs can be split in a way that is accurate and fair)
Costs, prices and volumes are known with certainty
Information concerning a decision is complete and reliable
The objective of the decision is to maximise profit or
contribution
It is not true that all fixed costs are non-relevant and so this is not an
assumption of relevant costing. It is also not true that one of the
assumptions of relevant costing is that firms hold no inventory.
Existing inventory can play a major role when trying to calculate the
relevant cost of materials for example.
From the suggestions below, identify the TWO which are relevant costs:
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The future cost of cleaning the office space, which will amount
to $150. Contractors can clean the office and the company has
the right to cancel the contract by giving one month’s notice.
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answers are:
An additional monthly cost of $3,000 that would be considered
as a running cost of a new machine to be purchased for
manufacturing a well-established product. The new machine
will reduce the fixed overhead absorbed by the product by $150
as it will save on labour time.
The future salary of a market researcher who will carry out the
development of a new product. The position of the market
researcher would be created especially for the new product
development program. However, the $15,000 salary would be a
fixed cost.
The cost of cleaning the office space is not correct because even if
the contract is cancelled today, it will be incurred.
The $300 expense
that will be paid to the marketing manager as a reimbursement is
incorrect because this cost is a sunk cost and it cannot be recovered
even if the company does not go ahead with the negotiations.
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is "Identify objectives, identify course of
action, evaluate course of action, select best option, compare actual
v budget"
X Plc manufactures two types of baby car seats, normal and deluxe.
The selling price of a normal car seat is $100 per unit. It has a variable
cost per unit of $60. The selling price of a deluxe car seat is $150 per unit
and it has a variable cost per unit of $80.
0 units of the normal car seat; 150,000 units of the deluxe car
seat
75,000 units of the normal car seat; 75,000 units of the deluxe
car seat
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is "0 units of the normal car seat; 150,000
units of the deluxe car seat".
The deluxe car seat has a greater
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contribution margin per unit ($150 - $80 = $70) than the normal car
seat ($100 - $60 = $40). With no market limitation on the deluxe car
seat, the ideal sales mix would be to produce 150,000 units of the
deluxe car seat.
Jansen Ltd has three options for machine X. One of these options involves
modifying the machine now at a cost of £6,000, which will mean that the
company does not have to hire an alternative machine at a cost of
£17,200. This modification would mean that machine X would have to
be disposed of in one year’s time at a cost of £3,200.
£14,400
£9,200
£8,000
£6,000
Incorrect
FEEDBACK
The answer is £8,000.
Modification = £6,000, hire costs
avoided = £(17,200) and disposal costs = £3,200 and so the relevant
cost is a saving of £8,000.
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