CMA MCQs
CMA MCQs
CMA MCQs
Q.6. Uncontrollable costs are the costs which be influenced by the action of a specified member
of an
undertaking.
(a) can not ✔
(b) can
(c) may or may not
(d) must
Q.18. Out of the following, what is not the work of purchase department:
(a) Receiving purchase requisition
(b) Exploring the sources of material supply
(c) Preparation and execution of purchase orders
(d) Accounting for material received ✔
Q.22. Economic order quantity is that quantity at which cost of holding and carrying inventory
is:
(a) Maximum and equal
(b) Minimum and equal ✔
(c) It can be maximum or minimum depending upon case to case.
(d) Minimum and unequal
Q.24. Which one out of the following is not an inventory valuation method?
(a) FIFO
(b) LIFO
(c) Weighted Average
(d) EOQ ✔
Q.29. Calculate the value of closing stock from the following according to FIFO method:
1st January, 2014: Opening balance: 50 units @ Rs. 4
Receipts:
5th January, 2014: 100 units @ Rs. 5
12th January, 2014: 200 units @ Rs. 4.50
Issues:
2nd January, 2014: 30 units
18th January, 2014: 150 units
(a) Rs. 765 ✔
(b) Rs. 805
(c) Rs. 786
(d) Rs. 700
Q.30. Calculate the value of closing stock from the following according to LIFO method:
1st January, 2014: Opening balance: 50 units @ Rs. 4
Receipts:
5th January, 2014: 100 units @ Rs. 5
12th January, 2014: 200 units @ Rs. 4.50
Issues:
2nd January, 2014: 30 units
18th January, 2014: 150 units
(a) Rs. 765
(b) Rs. 805 ✔
(c) Rs. 786
(d) Rs. 700
Q.31. Calculate the value of closing stock from the following according to Weighted Average
method:
1st January, 2014: Opening balance: 50 units @ Rs. 4
Receipts:
5th January, 2014: 100 units @ Rs. 5
12th January, 2014: 200 units @ Rs. 4.50
Issues:
2nd January, 2014: 30 units
18th January, 2014: 150 units
(a) Rs. 765
(b) Rs. 805
(c) Rs. 786 ✔
(d) Rs. 700
Q.34. From the following information, calculate the extra cost of material by following EOQ:
Annual consumption: = 45000 units
Ordering cost per order: = Rs. 10
Carrying cost per unit per annum: = Rs. 10
Purchase price per unit = Rs. 50
Re-order quantity at present = 45000 units
There is discount of 10% per unit in case of purchase of 45000 units in bulk.
(a) No saving
(b) Rs. 2,00,000
(c) Rs. 2,22,010
(d) Rs. 2,990 ✔
Q.36. If overtime is resorted to at the desire of the customer, then the overtime premium:
(a) should be charged to costing profit and loss account;
(b) should not be charged at all
(c) should be charged to the job directly ✔
(d) should be charged to the highest profit making department
Q.39. Costs associated with the labour turnover can be categorised into:
(a) Preventive Costs only
(b) Replacement costs only
(c) Both of the above ✔
(d) Machine costs
Q.42. Calculate the labour turnover rate according to replacement method from the following:
No. of workers on the payroll:
- At the beginning of the month: 500
- At the end of the month: 600
During the month, 5 workers left, 20 workers were discharged and 75 workers were recruited. Of
these, 10 workers were recruited in the vacancies of those leaving and while the rest were
engaged for an expansion scheme.
(a) 4.55%
(b) 1.82% ✔
(c) 6%
(d) 3%
Q.43. Calculate the labour turnover rate according to Separation method from the following:
No. of workers on the payroll:
- At the beginning of the month: 500
- At the end of the month: 600
During the month, 5 workers left, 20 workers were discharged and 75 workers were recruited. Of
these,
10 workers were recruited in the vacancies of those leaving and while the rest were engaged for
an
expansion scheme.
(a) 4.55% ✔
(b) 1.82%
(c) 6%
(d) 3%
Q.44. A worker is allowed 60 hours to complete the job on a guaranteed wage of Rs. 10 per hour.
Under
the Rowan Plan, he gets an hourly wage of Rs. 12 per hour. For the same saving in time, how
much he
will get under the Halsey Plan?
(a) Rs. 720
(b) Rs. 540 ✔
(c) Rs. 600
(d) Rs. 900
Q.46. Allotment of whole item of cost to a cost centre or cost unit is known as:
(a) Cost Apportionment
(b) Cost Allocation ✔
(c) Cost Absorption
(d) Machine hour rate
Q.49. Most suitable basis for apportioning insurance of machine would be:
(a) Floor Area
(b) Value of Machines ✔
(c) No. of Workers
(d) No. of Machines
Q.51. AT Co makes a single product and is preparing its material usage budget for next year.
Each unit of
product requires 2kg of material, and 5,000 units of product are to be produced next year.
Opening inventory of material is budgeted to be 800 kg and AT co budgets to increase material
inventory
at the end of next year by 20%
The material usage budget for next year is
(a) 8,000 Kg
((b) 9,840 kg
((c) 10,000 Kg ✔
(d) 10,160 Kg
Q.52. During a period 17, 500 labour hours were worked at a standard cost of Rs 6.50 per hour.
The
labour efficiency variance was Rs 7,800 favourable.
How many standard hours were produced?
(a) 1,200
(b) 16,300
(c) 17,500
(d) 18,700 ✔
Q.53. Which of the following is not a reason for an idle time variance?
(a) Wage rate increase ✔
(b) Machine breakdown
(c) Illness or injury to worker
(d) Non- availability of material
Q.54. During September, 300 labour hours were worked for a total cost of Rs 4800. The variable
overhead expenditure variance was Rs 600 (A). Overheads are assumed to be related to direct
labour
hours of active working.
What was the standard cost per labour hour?
(a) Rs 14 ✔
(b) Rs 16.50
(c) Rs 17.50
(d) Rs 18
Q.55. Which of the following would explain an adverse variable production overhead efficiency
variance?
1. Employees were of a lower skill level than specified in the standard
2. Unexpected idle time resulted from a series of machine breakdown
3. Poor Quality material was difficult to process
(a) (1), (2) and (3)
(b) (1) and (2)
(c) (2) and (3)
(d) (1) and (3) ✔
Q.56. Budgeted sales of X for March are 18000 units. At the end of the production process for X,
10% of
production units are scrapped as defective. Opening inventories of X for March are budgeted to
be 15000
units and closing inventories will be 11,400 units. All inventories of finished goods must have
successfully
passed the quality control check. The production budget for X for March, in units is:
(a) 12,960
(b) 14,400
(c) 15,840
(d) 16,000 ✔
Q.58. A Local Authority is preparing cash Budget for its refuse disposal department. Which of
the
following items would not be included in the cash budget?
(a) Capital cost of a new collection vehicle
(b) Depreciation of the machinery ✔
(c) Operatives wages
(d) Fuel for the collection Vehicles
Q.59. BDL Ltd. is currently preparing its cash budget for the year to 31 March 2014. An extract
from its
sales budget for the same year shows the following sales values.
Rs
March 60,000
April 70,000
May 55,000
June 65,000
40% of its sales are expected to be for cash. Of its credit sales, 70% are expected to pay in month
after
sale and take a 2% discount. 27% are expected to pay in the second month after the sale, and the
remaining 3% are expected to be bad debts. The value of sales budget to be shown in the cash
budget
for May 2013 is
(a) Rs 60,532 ✔
(b) Rs 61,120
(c) Rs 66,532
(d) Rs 86,620
Q.60. The actual output of 162,500 units and actual fixed costs of Rs. 87000 were exactly as
budgeted.
However, the actual expenditure of Rs 300,000 was Rs. 18,000 over budget.
What was the budget variable cost per unit?
(a) Rs 1.20 ✔
(b) Rs 1.31
(c) Rs1.42
(d) Rs 1.50
Q.61. CA Co manufactures a single product and has drawn up the following flexed budget for
the year.
60% 70% 80%
Rs Rs Rs
Direct materials 120,000 140,000 160,000
Direct labour 90,000 105,000 120,000
Production overheads 54,000 58,000 62,000
Other overheads 40,000 40,000 40,000
Total Cost 304,000 343,000 382,000
What would be the total cost in a budget that is prepared at the 77% level of activity?
(a) Rs 330,300
(b) Rs 370,300 ✔
(c) Rs 373,300
(d) Rs 377,300
Q.62. A ltd is a manufacturing company that has no production resource limitations for the
foreseeable
future. The Managing Director has asked the company mangers to coordinate the preparation of
their
budgets for the next financial year. In what order should the following budgets be prepared?
(1) Sales budget
(2) Cash budget
(3) Production budget
(4) Purchase budget
(5) Finished goods inventory budget
(a) (2), (3), (4), (5), (1)
(b) (1), (5), (3), (4), (2) ✔
(c) (1), (4), (5), (3), (2)
(d) (4), (5), (3), (1), (2)
Q.63. S produces and sells one product, P, for which the data are as follows:
Selling price Rs 28
Variable cost Rs 16
Fixed cost Rs 4
The fixed costs are based on a budgeted production and sales level of 25,000 units for the next
period.
Due to market changes both the selling price and the variable cost are expected to increase above
the
budgeted level in the next period.
If the selling price and variable cost per unit increase by 10% and 8% respectively, by how much
must
sales volume change, compared with the original budgeted level, in order to achieve the original
budgeted profit for the period?
(a) 10.1% decrease
(b) 11.2% decrease ✔
(c) 13.3% decrease
(d) 16.0% decrease
Q.66. A process costing system for J Co used an input of 3,500Kg of materials at Rs20 per Kg
and labour
hours of 2,750 at Rs25 per hour. Normal loss is 20% and losses can be sold at a scrap value of
Rs5per
Kg. Output was 2,950 Kg. What is the value of the output?
(a) Rs 142,485 ✔
(b) Rs 146,183
(c) Rs 149,746
(d) Rs 152,986
Q.67. In process costing, if an abnormal loss arises, the process account is generally
(a) Debited with the scrap value of the abnormal loss units
(b) Debited with the full production cost of the abnormal loss units
(c) Credited with the scrap value of the abnormal loss units
(d) Credited with the full production cost of the abnormal loss units ✔
Q.69. A job is budgeted to require 3,300 productive hours after incurring 25% idle time. If the
total labour
cost budgeted for the job is Rs36,300. What is the labour cost per hour( to the nearest cent)?
(a) Rs 8.25 ✔
(b) Rs 8.80
(c) Rs 11.00
(d) Rs 14.67
Q.70. A company calculates the prices of jobs by adding overheads to the prime cost and adding
30% to
total costs as a profit margin. Job number Y256 was sold for Rs1690 and incurred overheads of
Rs 694.
What was the prime cost of the job?
(a) Rs 489
(b) Rs 606 ✔
(c) Rs 996
(d) Rs 1300
Q.71. State which of the following are the characteristics of service costing.
1. High levels of indirect costs as a proportion of total costs
2. Use of composite cost units
3. Use of equivalent units
(a) (1) only
(b) (1) and (2) only ✔
(c) (2) only
(d) (2) and (3) only
Q.72. Which of the following organisations should not be advised to use service costing?
(a) Distribution service
(b) Hospital
(c) Maintenance division of a manufacturing company
(d) A light engineering company ✔
Q.73. Calculate the most appropriate unit cost for a distribution division of a multinational
company using
the following information.
Miles travelled 636,500
Tonnes carried 2,479
Number of drivers 20
Hours worked by drivers 35,520
Tonnes miles carried 375,200
Cost incurred 562,800
(a) Rs .88
(b) Rs 1.50 ✔
(c) Rs 15.84
(d) Rs28, 140
Q.74. The following information is available for the W hotel for the latest thirty day period.
Number of rooms available per night 40
Percentage occupancy achieved 65%
Room servicing cost incurred Rs. 3900
The room servicing cost per occupied room-night last period, to the nearest Rs, was:
(a) Rs 3.25
(b) Rs 5.00 ✔
(c) Rs 97.50
(d) Rs 150.00
Q.75. A company makes a single product and incurs fixed costs of Rs. 30,000 per annum.
Variable cost
per unit is Rs. 5 and each unit sells for Rs. 15. Annual sales demand is 7,000 units. The
breakeven point
is:
(a) 2,000 units
(b) 3,000 units ✔
(c) 4,000 units
(d) 6,000 units
Q.76. A company manufactures a single product for which cost and selling price data are as
follows:
Selling price per unit - Rs. 12
Variable cost per unit - Rs. 8
Fixed cost for a period - Rs. 98,000
Budgeted sales for a period - 30,000 units
The margin of safety, expressed as a percentage of budgeted sales,is:
(a) 20% ✔
b) 25%
(c) 73%
(d) 125%
Information for Q.77 to Q.79:
Information concerning A Ltd.'s single product is as follows:
Selling price - Rs. 6 per unit
Variable production cost - RS. 1.20 per unit
Variable selling cost - Rs. 0.40 per unit
Fixed production cost - Rs. 4 per unit
Fixed selling cost - Rs. 0.80 per unit.
Budgeted production and sales for the year are 10,000 units.
Q.78. How many units must be sold if company wants to achieve a profit of Rs. 11,000 for the
year?
(a) 2,500 units
(b) 9,833 units
(c) 10,625 units
(d) 13,409 units ✔
Q.79. It is now expected that the variable production cost per unit and the selling price per unit
will each
increase by 10%, and fixed production cost will rise by 25%. What will be the new break even
point?
(a) 8,788 units
(b) 11,600 units
(c) 11,885 units ✔
(d) 12,397 units
Q.80. A company's break even point is 6,000 units per annum. The selling price is Rs. 90 per unit
and
the variable cost is Rs. 40 per unit. What are the company's annual fixed costs?
(a) Rs. 120
(b) Rs. 2,40,000
(c) Rs. 3,00,000 ✔
(d) Rs. 5,40,000
Q.82. After inviting tenders for supply of raw materials, two quotations are received as
follows—
Supplier P Rs. 2.20 per unit, Supplier Q Rs. 2.10 per unit plus Rs. 2,000 fixed charges
irrespective of the
units ordered. The order quantity for which the purchase price per unit will be the same—
(a) 22,000 units
(b) 20,000 units ✔
(c) 21,000 units
(d) None of the above.
Q.83. In case of joint products, the main objective of accounting of the cost is to apportion the
joint costs
incurred up to the split off point. For cost apportionment one company has chosen Physical
Quantity
Method. Three joint products ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are produced in the same process. Up to the point
of split off
the total production of A, B and C is 60,000 kg, out of which ‘A’ produces 30,000 kg and joint
costs are
Rs. 3,60,000. Joint costs allocated to product A is
(a) Rs. 1,20,000
(b) Rs. 60,000
(c) Rs. 1,80,000 ✔
(d) None of the these
Q.84. A transport company is running five buses between two towns, which are 50 kms apart.
Seating
capacity of each bus is 50 passengers. Actually passengers carried by each bus were 75% of
seating
capacity. All buses ran on all days of the month. Each bus made one round trip per day.
Passenger kms are:
(a) 2,81,250
(b) 1,87,500
(c) 5,62,500 ✔
(d) None of the above
Q.85. The cost per unit of a product manufactured in a factory amounts to Rs. 160 (75%
variable) when
the production is 10,000 units. When production increases by 25%, the cost of production will be
Rs. per
unit.
(a) Rs. 145
(b) Rs. 150
(c) Rs. 152 ✔
(d) Rs. 140
Q.86. In ‘make or buy’ decision, it is profitable to buy from outside only when the supplier’s
price is below
the firm’s own ______________.
(a) Fixed Cost
(b) Variable Cost ✔
(c) Total Cost
(d) Prime Cost
Q.87. A budget which is prepared in a manner so as to give the budgeted cost for any level of
activity is
known as:
(a) Master budget
(b) Zero base budget
((c) Functional budget
(d) Flexible budget ✔
Q.90. _____________ is a detailed budget of cash receipts and cash expenditure incorporating
both
revenue and capital items.
(a) Cash Budget ✔
(b) Capital Expenditure Budget
(c) Sales Budget
(d) Overhead Budget
Q.92. For the financial year ended as on March 31, 2013 the figures extracted from the balance
sheet of
Xerox Limited as under:
Opening Stock Rs. 29,000; Purchases Rs. 2,42,000; Sales Rs. 3,20,000; Gross Profit 25% of
Sales.
Stock Turnover Ratio will be :-
(a) 8 times ✔
(b) 6 times
(c) 9 times
(d) 10 times
Q.93. If credit sales for the year is Rs. 5,40,000 and Debtors at the end of year is Rs. 90,000 the
Average
Collection Period will be
(a) 30 days
(b) 61 days ✔
(c) 90 days
(d) 120 days
Q.94. The summarized balance sheet of Rakesh udyog Limited shows the balances of previous
and
current year of provision for taxation Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 65,000. If taxed paid during the current
year
amounted to Rs. 70,000 then amount charge from Profit and Loss Account will be:
(a) Rs. 55,000
(b) Rs. 85,000 ✔
(c) Rs. 45,000
(d) Rs. 1,85,000
Q.95. The summarized balance sheet of Autolight Limited shows the balances of previous and
current
year of retained earnings Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 35,000. If dividend paid during the current year
amounted to
Rs. 5,000 then profit earned during the year will be:
(a) Rs. 5,000
(b) Rs. 55,000
(c) Rs. 15,000 ✔
(d) Rs. 65,000
Q.96. Following information is available of XYZ Limited for quarter ended June, 2013
Fixed cost Rs. 5,00,000
Variable cost Rs. 10 per unit
Selling price Rs. 15 per unit
Output level 1,50,000 units
What will be amount of profit earned during the quarter using the marginal costing technique?
(a) Rs. 2,50,000 ✔
(b) Rs. 10,00,000
(c) Rs. 5,00,000
(d) Rs. 17,50,000
Q.97. The P/v ratio of a company is 50% and margin of safety is 40%. If present sales is Rs.
30,00,000
then Break Even Point in Rs. will be
(a) Rs. 9,00,000
(b) Rs. 18,00,000 ✔
(c) Rs. 5,00,000
(d) None of the above
Q.98. Following information is available of PQR for year ended March, 2013: 4,000 units in
process,
3,800 units output, 10% of input is normal wastage, Rs. 2.50 per unit is scrap value and Rs.
46,000
incurred towards total process cost then amount on account of abnormal gain to be transferred to
Costing
P&L will be:-
(a) Rs. 2,500 ✔
(b) Rs. 2,000
(c) Rs. 4,000
(d) Rs. 3,500
Q.99. In element-wise classification of overheads, which one of the following is not included —
(a) Fixed overheads ✔
(b) Indirect labour
(c) Indirect materials
(d) Indirect expenditure.
Q.100. When the sales increase from Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 60,000 and profit increases by Rs. 5,000,
the P/V
ratio is —
(a) 20%
(b) 30%
(c) 25% ✔
(d) 40%.