BMAN21040 INTERMEDIATE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 2021
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BMAN21040
INTERMEDIATE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
2021
SECTION A
QUESTION 1
Arena Company uses a traditional activity-based costing system to manage the relationships with its suppliers. It estimates that the time purchasing and logistics staff spend dealing with suppliers and the theoretical capacity for different cost drivers are as follows:
ACTIVITY |
TIME PERCENTAGE |
ESTIMATED COST DRIVER QUANTITY (THEORETICAL CAPACITY) |
Placing orders |
60% |
8,000 orders |
Quality inspection for incoming orders |
20% |
2,500 inspections |
Evaluation of supplier performance |
20% |
40 evaluations |
|
100% |
|
The total cost of purchasing and logistics activities is £200,000.
For the two largest suppliers, Arena Company holds the following information.
|
SUPPLIER A |
SUPPLIER B |
Average price of purchased goods (per unit) |
£ 3.00 |
£ 5.00 |
Orders placed |
1,000 |
500 |
Quality inspections |
400 |
200 |
Performance evaluations |
1 |
1 |
During the accounting period under consideration, Arena Company has purchased 10,000 units from supplier A and 6,000 units from supplier B.
Required:
a) Assuming that the purchasing and logistics function operates at full capacity, use the information above to calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO) per unit for the two suppliers. (15 Marks)
b) Calculate the supplier performance index (SPI) for the two suppliers.
(5 Marks)
c) How can Arena Company use the SPI to manage the relationship with the two suppliers? (5 Marks)
d) Give some examples of other performance indicators that can be used to evaluate the performance of suppliers and describe how they relate to the SPI. Discuss how higher or lower performance along the chosen indicators can translate into higher and lower SPI performance. (5 Marks)
QUESTION 2
EssentialParts Ltd is a sub-contractor in the car industry. The firm has two operating departments: the machining department and the assembly department. The firm also has two support departments: materials procurement and general factory support. The usage of these two support departments’ output for 2019 was as follows:
|
Support departments |
Operating departments |
||
User of Services |
Materials Procurement |
General Factory Support |
Machining Department |
Assembly Department |
Budgeted manufacturing overhead costs before an inter-department cost allocations |
|
|
|
|
|
900,000 |
750,000 |
1,000,000 |
4,000,000 |
Support work supplied by: |
|
|
|
|
Materials Procurement |
0% |
5% |
50% |
45% |
General Factory Support |
40% |
0% |
50% |
10% |
Required
a) Use the direct method to allocate the budgeted costs of the Materials Procurement Department and General Factory Support Department to the Machine Centre and Assembly Centre. (4 Marks)
b) Use the step down method to allocate budgeted costs of the Materials Procurement Department and General Factory Support Department to the Machine Centre and Assembly Centre. (8 Marks)
c) Use the reciprocal method to allocate the budgeted costs of the Materials Procurement Department and General Factory Support Department to the Machining Department and Assembly Department. (12 Marks)
d) Explain which support department cost allocation method best meets the purpose of allocating indirect costs with the cause-effect logic reasonably intact
in this particular case and how this may necessitate trade-offs with the other criteria for cost allocations? Please also discuss the circumstances under which
your response to this question would be different. (6 Marks)
QUESTION 3
CarLux Ltd manufactures car accessories. One of the company’s products is a set of seat covers that can be adjusted to fit nearly any small car. The company has a standard cost system in use for all of its products. According to the standards that have been set for the seat covers, the factory should work 3,870 hours each month to produce 2,150 sets of covers. The standard costs associated with this level of production activity are:
|
Total |
Per set of seat covers |
Direct materials |
£42,570 |
19.80 |
Direct labour |
£ 16,125 |
7.50 |
Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labour-hours) |
£ 7,095 |
3.30 |
|
|
£30.60 |
During March, the factory worked only 3,500 direct labour hours and produced 2,250 sets of covers. The following actual costs were recorded during the month:
|
Total |
Per set of seat covers |
Direct materials (11,700 metres) |
£45,630 |
20.28 |
Direct labour |
£ 17,250 |
7.60 |
Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labour-hours) |
£ 7,750 |
3.40 |
|
|
£31.28 |
At standard, each set of covers should require 6 metres of material. All of the materials purchased during the month was used in production.
Required
a) Compute the materials price and quantity variances for March. (10 marks)
b) Compute the labour rate and efficiency variances for March. (10 marks)
c) If variable manufacturing overhead is applied to production on the basis of direct-labour hours and the direct labour efficiency variance is unfavourable, will the variable overhead efficiency variance be favourable or unfavourable or could it be both? Explain your answer. (5 marks)
d) Explain what is meant by the term management by exception. (5 marks)
SECTION B
QUESTION 4
Cost information is important to take into consideration when considering pricing
decisions, but it is only one of many factors that have to be taken into account. Discuss what this wider range of factors, related to a company’s market environment, are and how they influence the use of product costing for pricing decisions.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A WORD LIMIT OF 750 WORDS FOR
ANSWERING THIS QUESTION. (20 Marks)
QUESTION 5
Why do organisations allocate indirect costs (overheads) and how they go about determining the principles for allocating such costs? Discuss these issues with reference to the purpose of cost allocations and the criteria for determining the ways in which indirect costs should be allocated.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A WORD LIMIT OF 750 WORDS FOR
ANSWERING THIS QUESTION. (20 Marks)
QUESTION 6
Describe how activity-based costing (ABC) can be used for the purpose of customer segmentation and what the advantages and disadvantages of using ABC for this
purpose are compared to using traditional absorption costing for the same purpose.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A WORD LIMIT OF 750 WORDS FOR
ANSWERING THIS QUESTION. (20 Marks)
2022-01-20