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A manufacturing company is in the process of introducing just in time (JIT) and total quality management (TQM) into every aspect of its value chain.
Which TWO of the following are appropriate changes to make to the support activities in the organization's value chain?
The starting point for developing a balanced scorecard for an organization should be:
An 80% learning curve will apply to the production of a new product. The first unit will require 120 labor hours. The labor rate is $11 per hour.
To the nearest $1, the expected total labor cost for the first 4 units is:
Which TWO of the following conditions are necessary for a learning curve to apply?
Using Porter's value chain, place the tokens to correctly categories the following activities of a manufacturing company.
Which of the following would change if the cost of capital of a proposed project was increased?
An investment centre is appraising a potential project that is expected to yield a Return on Investment (ROI) of 12%.
Without the project the investment centre expects to earn an ROI of 14%. The cost of capital is 10%.
What would be the impact on the investment centre's performance measures if the project is accepted?
A project is viable because it has a positive net present value (NPV).
Details of four of the input variables, together with the sensitivity of the viability of the project to a change in each one in isolation, are given below.
Which of the following statements is correct?
The Chief Executive of a large manufacturing company has made the following comment.
"All of our competitors are using both just-in-time(JIT) and Total Quality Management (TQM) whereas we have never used either. Consequently we are lagging behind our competitors because their levels of inventory and quality costs are significantly below ours. I want to see JIT fully implemented, both for purchasing and for production, in 4 weeks' time and TQM fully implemented 4 weeks after that."
Which of the following provide appropriate advice to the Chief Executive?
Select ALL that apply.
A company is considering four mutually exclusive projects. There are three possible future demand conditions but the company has no idea of the probability of each of these demand conditions occurring. The forecast net present values (NPVs) of each of the four projects, under each of the three possible future demand conditions, are as follows.
Which investment would be selected using the maximin criterion?
An organization wants to increase the use value that customers place on one of its products - a laptop computer.
Which of the following actions, taken to increase the value to the customer, would increase the product's use value?
Select ALL that apply.
A company's competitor has just launched a rival product at a selling price of $38 per unit. Until now the company's selling price of $41.60 per unit has achieved a 30% mark-up on the product's unit cost. The company proposes to use a target costing approach to pricing to remain competitive.
Management has decided to match the competitor's selling price and has set a target cost to achieve a 20% return on the target price.
What is the cost gap?
The performance report for the production manager of a company for the last month included the following.
1,000 direct labor hours were worked at a basic rate of pay of $10 per hour. 200 of these hours were worked during overtime for which a 30% overtime premium was paid. 80 of these overtime hours were to fulfill a customer order that had originally been planned for manufacture next month. The sales manager had agreed to bring forward the delivery of this order at the request of the customer. The remaining overtime hours were due to unexpected inefficiency of the workforce; this has been traced to poor supervision by a junior manager.
Material costs included the following:
What is the total value of the above costs that was controllable by the production manager?
In an organization's transfer pricing system the selling division and the purchasing division each record a different price for the same transaction.
This is known as a:
Company TTM has the opportunity to invest $60,000 in a project. The project is anticipated to produce annual returns of $12,500 each year for 8 years. The cost of capital is 12%.
What is the net present value of the project? Give your answer to the nearest whole number.
A company is investing $200,000 in a project which will generate a cash flow of $60,000 each year for five years starting immediately. The company's cost of capital is 7%.
The net present value of the investment to the nearest $100 is $
A machine requires an initial investment of $500,000. The net present value (NPV) of the investment in the machine is $36,500.
Which of the following statements is correct in relation to the sensitivity of the investment?
During a Board meeting at a manufacturing company, concerns regarding the analysing of the current inventory management systems and processes are brought up.
Attendees of the meeting have made several claims and suggestions but the managing director admits that he does not know who to believe and so has asked you to let him know which statements of the following
statements are TRUE?
Select ALL that apply.
An investment appraisal has identified that a project has a positive net present value when discounted at the company's cost of capital. If the cost of capital is now increased, indicate whether each of the following appraisal measures will increase, decrease or stay the same.
The money cost of capital is 12%. The expected rate of inflation is 4%. What is the real cost of capital?
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
The cash flows from a project are detailed in the table below.
To the nearest 1%, what is the project's internal rate of return?
Place the correct quality cost classification against each cost described below.
Performance measures that monitor the extent to which a not-for-profit organization's objectives have been achieved are measures of:
TESTED 14 May 2024
