Question - Mid Term Parallel Quiz 2324
Question - Mid Term Parallel Quiz 2324
Management Accounting
Teaching Assistant Team
Required:
1. Determine the inventoriable cost for Variable costing and Absorption Costing!
2. Determine the unit of ending inventory each year (2023 and 2024)!
3. Determine the unit sales for each year!
4. What is the impact for value of beginning inventory if we use FIFO? Explain briefly!
5. Prepare income statement based on variable costing for 2023 and 2024
6. Explain briefly the difference between variable costing and absorption costing! Determine
which costing that could be riskier for fraud potential!
7. Prepare a numerical reconciliation and explanation of the difference between operating
income under absorption costing and variable costing.
Required:
1. How many Pens and Pencil that must be sold so that Lacks can break-even? How much is
the break-even revenue for Lacks?
2. If Lacks wants an operating income of $ 45,000. How much Pen and Pencil must be sold?
What is the margin of safety?
3. If Lacks wants a net income of $ 50,000. How many Pens and Pencil must be sold? What
is the margin of safety? (Assuming a 20% tax rate)
4. Lacks is considering automating the payment process. If a machine replaces the payment
process, there will be an additional fixed cost of $60.000, but the variable cost for each
stationaries drops by 20%. With the given previous sales mix, how many Pen and Pencil
must be sold so that Lacks can break-even? How much is the break-even revenue?
5. Another option that is being considered by Lacks is opening a new branch. The addition of
this branch will increase the fixed cost by $54.000 and change the sales mix so that every
1 Pen sold, 1 Pencil will be sold as well. How many Pen and Pencil does Lacks have to sell
to break-even? How much is the break- even revenue?
Problem 3 – Operating budget
Jupiter Ltd had just launched one model of granite-top coffee tables: Deluxe. There are two types
of direct materials: red oak and granite slabs. The following data are available for April 2024:
Required:
Prepare the following budget for April 2024.
1) Revenue Budget
2) Production Budget
3) Direct Materials Usage & Purchase Budget
4) Direct Labor budget
5) Manufacturing Overhead Budget
Required:
1. Compute the direct material price and usage variances for 2022!
2. Compute the direct labor price and usage variances for 2022!
3. Verify whether the previous manager was telling the truth or not: is the company really
doing well and the cost is kept under control? (Hint: Summarize the variances that you
computed above by showing the net overall favorable or unfavorable flexible-budget
variance for the month)