NEW QUESTION 57
Huaxia Manufacturing’s standard cost card for product GH1 includes the following:

During the month of June, Huaxia produced 12,300 units. The purchasing department purchased 30,400 yards of fabric for a total cost of $100,320. The production department used 25.300 yards of fabric in June. What is Huaxia’s direct materials price variance for the month of June?

NEW QUESTION 58
A company reported that its shareholders’ equity decreased in the recent year. This could occur if

NEW QUESTION 59
MJC Co. is considering adopting a variable costing system using variable costing rather than absorption costing will be more advantageous to MJC because the variable costing system

NEW QUESTION 60
After a recent earthquake in a nearby city the board of directors of a company has requested a review of the company s disaster recovery plan Which of the following would be classified as a weakness in the company’s disaster recovery plan?

NEW QUESTION 61
A company carried out the following activities for the current period.

According to U.S GAAP, what amount of cash was provided by financing activities?

NEW QUESTION 62
What is ZF’s expected variable overhead cost per pound of food produced? Snow your calculations 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.

NEW QUESTION 63
A manufacturing company is setting a standard number of labor hours for a product Management creates a draft standard and asks for employees’ feedback. Which one of the following statements best represents the type of standard that is being set?

NEW QUESTION 64
A fitness company produces workout video content and snares it online. The company has subscribers all over the world and its subscriber base has shown steady growth Management has approached a popular workout apparel company to discuss potential sponsorship opportunities. The goal is to impress the potential sponsor by showing the growth in total subscribers over the last 12 months. All of the following would be appropriate options for visualizing this data except a

NEW QUESTION 65
Brickworks Inc. prepares its annual budget by focusing on the budgeted costs of the processes necessary to produce and sell its products This type of budgeting is known as

NEW QUESTION 66
A company incurred the following selected costs In its manufacturing operations during the month.

NEW QUESTION 67
Mauer Company’s master budget for next year indicates the following

NEW QUESTION 68
Comprehensive income is best defined as

NEW QUESTION 69
A company recently used 500 direct labor hours to manufacture ten units of a new product, if the company employs the cumulative average-time learning model with a 90% learning curve, the number of direct labor hours the company would expect to use to produce the next ten units of this product is

NEW QUESTION 70
Which one of the following is not considered to be a Benefit of participative budgeting?

NEW QUESTION 71
Identity two internal factors that enable the Food-To-Go division to have competitive advantages over Its competitors.
Essay
Food Depot Ltd (FDD is a privately-held company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant chains including fast food, casual dining, and fine dining restaurants FDL has been profitable m recent years and has a very strong cash position FDL’s newest division. Food-To-Go. is an online meal ordering and delivery platform acquired by FDL two years ago.
In 20X7. sales for the entire company were SI billion, with 50% of the business coming from the Airline Catering division. FDL is the country’s leading airline catering services provider and controls 60% of the market share. However, the outlook of the airline catering industry is gloomy. The compound annual growth rate of the industry for the past five years was only 0.5% as airline networks have increasingly dropped catering on short domestic flights.
The Food-To-Go division only contributed 5% of FDL’s total sales in 20X7 and is far behind in competing for market share of the online meal ordering and deliver, industry. It is estimated that Food-To-Go’s sales were only 20% of the industry leader’s sales However, the outlook for the online meal ordering and delivery services industry is bright. The compound annual growth rate of the industry since it started three years ago was 50%. It is estimated the rapid growth of the industry will continue in the foreseeable future.
The costs of shared corporate services are allocated based on each division s revenue FDL usually caps its capital expenditure budget to 4% of budgeted sales revenue In a recent capital budget coordination meeting.
Smith Whitney, the head of the Airline Catering division. complained that his division is underfunded on capital projects . The budgeted capital expenditure had been much less than 4 % of the division’s budgeted sales in the past three years He argued that his division is the company’s best-performing division, and it needs more funds to maintain its market share m the industry Whitney wants to reduce the capital expenditure budget for Food-To-Go and reallocate those funds to his division.
Susan Wiley, the bead of Food-To-Go, does not agree that the Airline Catering division is the best-performing division in the company Wiley argues that her division had the highest ROI in 20X7. and it deserves more capital funding FDL’s required rate of return is 12%. The selected financial data for the Airline Catering division and Food-To-Go division in 20X7 are as follows (in $ millions).

NEW QUESTION 72
A manufacturing company is considering implementing activity-based costing. Which one of the following statements is a valid consideration when making this change?

NEW QUESTION 73
COSO’s Internal Control-Integrated Framework is the widely accepted internal control framework in the U S Five major Internal control components are Included in this framework Control environment consists of

NEW QUESTION 74
Personal Solutions manufactures nand-new personal computers and communications devices The company uses a Job-order costing system and applies manufacturing overhead to products on the oasis of machine hours The following estimates were used in preparing the predetermined overhead rate at the beginning of the year.

During the year, weak sales led to a reduction in production and a buildup or inventory Production records provided the following information.

Finished goods inventory included applied overhead of $100.000 while cost of goods sold included applied overhead of $300,000. There was no work-in-process inventory at year end how should the under-applied manufacturing overhead be handled at year end?