Which of the following criticisms relate to traditional budgeting methods and which relate to the ' beyond budgeting ' approach?

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Transfer prices between responsibility centers should be set at a level that:

A division of a company transfers all its output to other divisions in the same company.

For this division, which of the following measures is NOT affected by the transfer price that the division uses?

Using the Value Chain model for a manufacturing company, place the correct primary activity classification against each of the activities described.

An airline company has operated passenger flights with low ticket prices to various airports from a busy airport for several years. It now faces increased competition on a number of its routes and has decided to use the balanced scorecard to monitor its performance.

Which of the following statements are correct?

Select ALL that apply.

In an inflationary environment which is the correct way of calculating net present value (NPV)?

Four mutually exclusive projects have been appraised as follows using net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), accounting rate of return (ARR) and payback period (PP).

Recommend which of the projects should be chosen.

A company currently absorbs production overheads based on labor hours. The overheads absorbed by the two products that are made, L and M, are $4 per unit and $10 per unit respectively. These were based on the budgeted overheads of $7,000 and budgeted labor hours of 1,750. The budgeted output was 500 units of each product.

The company is investigating the use of activity based costing (ABC). Analysis has shown that the total production overheads of $7,000 are made up of $4,000 for set up costs and $3,000 for inspection costs. The cost driver for set up costs is the number of set ups and for inspection costs it is the number of inspections.

The cost driver rate for set ups is $160 per set up. Product L would need 5 production runs. Both types of product would need 1 set up for each production run.

Product L would need 2 inspections for each production run. Product M would need 1 inspection per production run.

The products are made in the same department and use the same equipment and staff but they are produced separately.

Which of the following statements are correct?

Select ALL that apply.

Under the absorption costing system, which simply allocates our entire amount of production overheads based on machine hours, we have found that out of our 4 products, 2 are profitable, 1 breaks even and 1 is

making a loss.

Model D the most recent addition to the range is making a large loss after the price of a major component rose dramatically. Model A is only just breaking now too as costs have risen. The only two products making profit

are Models B and C. These two require the least about of machine hours so this makes sense.

However, the management have a few reservations. They cannot understand how B is so profitable. It requires several more stages of production than the other models and a whole day longer to be customised by an

expert.

Select the correct answer from the list below that can help to explain this situation.

The starting point for developing a balanced scorecard for an organization should be: