IMA CMA Part 1: Financial Planning - Performance and Analytics - CMA-Financial-Planning-Performance-and-Analytics Exam Practice Test
Question 1
For a manufacturing company what is the most Important advantage of using variable costing rather than absorption costing?
Correct Answer: A
Question 2
A company incurred the following selected costs In its manufacturing operations during the month.
Correct Answer: A
Question 3
identity and explain one benefit and one limitation of outsourcing most of me payroll-related work to an outside payroll service provider.
Essay
Zhiliang Foods Inc. (ZFI) is a privately-held food distributor ZFI has two production departments' the Meat Department is labor-intensive. while the Bakery Department is highly automated ZFI applies a single overhead allocation rate, using the number of pounds produced as an allocation base for the whole company The expected annual overhead costs of ZFI for 100 million pounds produced are as follows (¥ in millions).
ZFI has one payroll administrator in its Human Resources department, but most of the payroll related work is outsourced to a payroll service provider ZFI's payroll administrator is responsible for tracking the list of current employees and maintaining the most up-to-date employee information, including bank accounts for payroll direct deposits.
Each pay period, the payroll administrator emails the information for all current employees' hours worked to the payroll service provider. The service provider then processes the payroll, makes direct deposits to employees' bank accounts, mails payroll stubs to employees' homes and emails payroll reports to ZFI's payroll administrator. The payroll administrator then makes payroll journal entries to ZFI's accounting system based on the payroll reports received ZFI's accountant prepares a bank reconciliation each month to ensure ZFI s payroll payments on ZFI's bank statement match the amounts shown on the payroll reports from the service provider.
ZFl's management is evaluating the purchase of data encryption software and human resources management software next year. The human resource management software is expected to provide various human resources and payroll-related functions.
In addition, the human resource software can generate a report to indicate the monthly employee turnover rate and the average service length of employees who have resigned. The system can also generate a report to indicate the main reasons for resignations and identify current employees who are at risk of resigning. The system will recommend actions to help retain these employees, such as more training opportunities or a pay raise.
Essay
Zhiliang Foods Inc. (ZFI) is a privately-held food distributor ZFI has two production departments' the Meat Department is labor-intensive. while the Bakery Department is highly automated ZFI applies a single overhead allocation rate, using the number of pounds produced as an allocation base for the whole company The expected annual overhead costs of ZFI for 100 million pounds produced are as follows (¥ in millions).
ZFI has one payroll administrator in its Human Resources department, but most of the payroll related work is outsourced to a payroll service provider ZFI's payroll administrator is responsible for tracking the list of current employees and maintaining the most up-to-date employee information, including bank accounts for payroll direct deposits.
Each pay period, the payroll administrator emails the information for all current employees' hours worked to the payroll service provider. The service provider then processes the payroll, makes direct deposits to employees' bank accounts, mails payroll stubs to employees' homes and emails payroll reports to ZFI's payroll administrator. The payroll administrator then makes payroll journal entries to ZFI's accounting system based on the payroll reports received ZFI's accountant prepares a bank reconciliation each month to ensure ZFI s payroll payments on ZFI's bank statement match the amounts shown on the payroll reports from the service provider.
ZFl's management is evaluating the purchase of data encryption software and human resources management software next year. The human resource management software is expected to provide various human resources and payroll-related functions.
In addition, the human resource software can generate a report to indicate the monthly employee turnover rate and the average service length of employees who have resigned. The system can also generate a report to indicate the main reasons for resignations and identify current employees who are at risk of resigning. The system will recommend actions to help retain these employees, such as more training opportunities or a pay raise.
Correct Answer:
See the Answer below in Explanation details.
Explanation
One of ihe advantage of the outsourcing is that the company management would have enough time to focus on its key strategic issues rather that payroll processing The downside of the outsourcing is confidentiality issue which might arise as key information about payroll would he shared with the outsource service provider.
Explanation
One of ihe advantage of the outsourcing is that the company management would have enough time to focus on its key strategic issues rather that payroll processing The downside of the outsourcing is confidentiality issue which might arise as key information about payroll would he shared with the outsource service provider.
Question 4
Comprehensive income is best defined as
Correct Answer: B
Question 5
The contribution margin data is shown below for several strategic business units (SBU).
which SBU has the lowest contribution margin ratio?
which SBU has the lowest contribution margin ratio?
Correct Answer: A
Question 6
Anatolian Textile Company produces blue-jean pants for a globally known blue-jean brand and its annual financial results are shown below.
Based on the table the sales-price variance for the company is
Based on the table the sales-price variance for the company is
Correct Answer: C
Question 7
Which of the following represents a significant deficiency m the design of controls?
Correct Answer: D
Question 8
Lewis Farms inc, is a large grower of vegetables in Northern California. During a year in which there is no drought the firm earns S3 million from its produce In a year with a partial drought, earnings are $1 million and if there is a severe drought, the firm has zero earnings Based on many years of weather data, in 50% of the years there was no drought in 30% of the years there was a partial drought, and a severe drought occurred 20% of the time. Lewis Farms has an opportunity to purchase an insurance policy that would pay Lewis $2 million in the event of a severe drought $1 million in the case of a partial drought, and nothing in the event there is no drought ignoring taxes, the maximum premium that Lewis would be willing to pay for the policy is
Correct Answer: B
