Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka Managerial Level November 2014 Examination

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Copyright Reserved Serial No Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka Managerial Level November 2014 Examination Examination Date : 22 nd November 2014 Number of Pages : 06

1 Copyright Reserved Serial No Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka Managerial Level November 2014 Examination Examination Date : 22 nd November 2014 Number of Pages : 06 Examination Time: 9.30 a:m p:m. Number of Questions: 05 Instructions to candidates: 1. Time allowed is three (3) hours. 2. Total: 100 Marks. 3. Answer all questions in Part I and any three (3) questions from Part II. 4. The answers should be in English Language. Subject Subject Code Integrative Management Accounting (IMA / ML 1-301) PART I Question No. 01 (40 Marks) MEP plc manufactures electric pumps for commercial use. The company produces three models, designated as regular, advanced, and deluxe. The company uses a job-order cost-accounting system with manufacturing overhead applied on the basis of direct-labour hours. The predetermined overhead rate is calculated as budgeted overhead divided by budgeted direct labour hours. The system has been in place with little change for 25 years. Product costs and annual sales data are as follows: REGULAR ADVANCED DELUXE Annual Sales (units) 20,000 1,000 10,000 Product Costs Per Unit: Direct Material (Rs.) 2,000 5,000 8,400 Direct Labour (Rs.) 2,000 (1hr. Rs.2,000) 4,000 (2hrs. Rs.2,000) 4,000 (2hrs. Rs.2,000) Manufacturing Overhead (Rs.) 17,000 (1hr. Rs.17,000) 34,000 (2hrs. Rs. 17,000) 34,000 (2hrs. Rs. 17,000) Total Product Cost (Per Unit) 21,000 43,000 46,400 Manufacturing overhead budget: Rs.000 Depreciation machinery 296,000 Maintenance machinery 24,000 Depreciation and insurance for the factory 60,000 Engineering 70,000 Purchasing, receiving, and shipping 50,000 Inspection, and repair of defects 75,000 Material handling 80,000 Miscellaneous manufacturing overhead costs 59,000 Total 714,000 Direct-labour budget: Regular Model Advanced model Deluxe model Total 20,000 hours 2,000 hours 20,000 hours 42,000 hours Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka 1

2 For the past 10 years the company s pricing formula has been to set each product s target price at percent of its full product cost. Recently, however, the regular model pump has come under increasing price pressure from offshore competitors. The result was that the price on the regular model has been lowered to Rs.22,000/-. The company president recently asked the controller, Why can t we compete with the other companies? They are selling pumps just like our regular model for Rs.21,200/-. That is only two hundred more than our production cost. Are we really that inefficient? What gives? The controller responded by saying, I think this is due to an outmoded product-costing system. As, you may remember, I raised a red flag about our system when I came on board last year. But the decision was to keep our current system in place. In my judgment, our product-costing system is distorting our product cost. Let me run a few numbers to demonstrate what I mean. Getting the president s go-ahead, the controller compiled the basic data needed to implement an activity-based costing system. These data are displayed in the following table. The percentages are the proportion of each cost driver consumed by each product line. Activity cost pool Cost driver Product lines Regular Advanced Deluxe Depreciation, machinery Machine time 39% 13% 48% Maintenance, machinery Engineering Engineering hours 47% 6% 47% Inspection and repair of defects Purchasing, receiving, and shipping Number of material 47% 8% 45% Material handling orders Depreciation, and insurance for the factory Miscellaneous manufacturing overhead costs Factory space usage 42% 15% 43% You are required to: (a) (b) (e) Compute the target prices for the three models of pumps, based on the traditional, volume-based product costing-system. Compute the new product costs for the three products, based on the new data collected by the controller. (08 Marks) Calculate a new target price for the three products, based on the activity-based costing system, and compare the new target price with the current actual selling price for the regular model. Write a memo to the company president explaining what has been happening as a result of the firm s traditional volume-based product-costing system. (12 Marks) What strategic options does management have? What do you recommend, and why? (08 Marks) (Total 40 Marks) End of Part I Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka 2

3 PART II Answer any three (3) questions Question No. 02 (20 Marks) Development PLC is a large business organized on divisional lines. Two typical divisions are Division Y and Division X. They are engaged in broadly similar activities and, therefore, central management compares their results in order to make judgments on managerial performance. Both divisions are regarded as investment centers. A summary of last year s financial results of the two divisions is as follows: Division Y (Rs. Million) Division X (Rs. Million) Capital Employed 2, Sales 1, Manufacturing cost: Direct Indirect (300) (220) (212) (48) Selling and Distribution (180) (40) Divisional profit Apportionment of uncontrollable central overhead cost (50) (20) Net profit At the beginning of last year, Division Y incurred substantial expenditure on automated production lines and new equipment. Division X has a quite old plant. Approximately 50% of the sales of the Division X are internal transfers to other divisions within the business. These transfers are based on unadjusted prevailing market price. The inter-divisional transfers of division Y are minimal. Management of the business focuses on return on investment as a major performance indicator. The required minimum Rate of Return is the business Cost of Capital of 10%. You are required to: (a) Differentiate between managerial performance and divisional performance. (b) List characteristics of an investment center. (03 Marks) Compute Residual Income, and Return on Investment for Managerial Performance by stating any assumptions that you made. (07 Marks) Comment on the managerial performance of the two divisions. Question No. 03 (20 Marks) Visit Company operates a visitor center in a major tourist area. The normal price is Rs.2,000/- per person, but a reduced rate of Rs.1,200/- applies to senior citizens (who make up 25% of the center s visitors). The total number of visitors per month is 24,000. The fixed cost of operating the center is Rs. 36 million per month. This does not include the fixed costs of the center s shop and cafe, which are Rs. 5 million and 7 million, respectively. The average spending per visitor in the shop and cafe are as follows: Shop (Rs.) Cafe (Rs.) Normal price visitor 1,000 1,000 Senior citizen Contribution margins in the shop and cafe are 25% and 30% respectively. Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka 3

4 You are required to: (a) (b) Calculate the monthly break-even point (in terms of number of visitors to the center) for each of the following: (i) The shop (ii) The Cafe (iii) The visitor center as a whole A nationwide catering chain has offered to take over the running of the cafe. The chain pays all fixed, variable costs of the cafe and would also pay the center a monthly fee of Rs.500,000/- for use of the cafe space in the visit center. Identify and present the financial analysis, which the visitor center should carry out in relation to this offer. The Marketing Manager of the center has suggested that the admission price of senior citizens should be increased by Rs.500/-. The price increase would be accompanied by an advertising campaign (in some selected magazines read by senior citizens) costing Rs.350,000/- but would nevertheless result in a 25% reduction in the number of senior citizens visiting the center. Calculate the effect on monthly profit of implementing this proposal. (In answering this part, assume that the proposal in part (b) above is also under consideration). Identify two factors (other than the results of the financial analysis, which you have conducted) that should be considered by the visitor center in making decisions about the proposals in parts (b) and above. Question No. 04 (20 Marks) Captain Press Company (CPC) is analyzing the potential profitability of three mutually exclusive printing jobs put up for bid by the State Department of Revenue. Job A Job B Job C Project winning bid per unit (Rs.) Direct cost per unit (Rs.) Annual sales volume (units) 800, , ,000 Annual distribution costs (Rs.) 9 million 7.5 million 5.5 million Investment required to produce annual volume (Rs.) 500 million 520 million 400 million Additional information: 1. The company s income tax rate is 50%. 2. Each job is expected to have a six-year life span. 3. The company uses straight-line depreciation method. 4. The average Cost of Capital is 14%. 5. The jobs have the same risk as the firm s other business. 6. The company has already spent Rs. 6 million on developing the preceding data. This amount has been capitalized and will be amortized over the life of the project. Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka 4

5 You are required to: (a) Differentiate between mutually exclusive projects and independent projects. (b) The expected net cash flow for each year. (08 Marks) Net Present Value of each project, on which project, if any, should the company bid? Suppose that CPC s primary business is quite cyclical, improving and declining depending on the overall performance of the economy, but that job A is expected to be counter-cyclical. Might this have any bearing on your decision? Question No. 05 (20 Marks) Industrial Technologies Company (ITC) produces two compression machines that are popular with manufacturers of plastics; No.165 and No.172. Machine no.165 has an average selling price of Rs.3,000,000/-, whereas no.172 typically sells for approximately Rs.2,750,000/-. The company is very concerned about quality and has provided the following information: No. 165 No. 172 Number of machines produced and sold Warranty cost: Average repair cost per unit (Rs.) Percentage of units needing repair 90,000 70% 35,000 10% Reliability engineering at Rs.15,000 per hour 1,600 hours 2,000 hours Rework at ITC; manufacturing plant: Average rework cost per unit (Rs.) Percentage of units needing rework 190,000 35% 160,000 25% Manufacturing inspection at Rs.5,000 per hour 300 hours 500 hours Transportation costs to customer sites and to fix machines (Rs.) 2,950,000 1,500,000 Quality training for employees (Rs.) 3,500,000 5,000,000 You are required to: (a) (b) Classify the preceding costs as prevention, appraisal, internal failure, or external failure. Using the classifications in (a) above, compute ITC s quality cost for machine no.165 in Rupees and as a percentage of sales revenues. Further, calculate prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure cost as a percentage of total quality costs. Repeat the steps in part (b) for machine no Quality costs can be classified as observable or hidden. What are hidden quality costs, and how do these costs differ from observable costs? End of Part II Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka 5

6 Present value table Present value of 1.00 unit of currency, that is (1 + r) -n where r = interest rate; n = number of periods until payment or receipt. Periods (n) Interest rates (r) 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% Periods (n) Interest rates (r) 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17% 18% 19% 20% End of Question Paper Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka 6

Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka Operational Level May 2018 Examination

Copyright Reserved Serial No Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka Operational Level May 2018 Examination Examination Date : 12 th May 2018 Number of Pages : 08 Examination Time: 9.30