Operating margin is revenues minus the cost of goods sold and all operating expenses.
False
True
Pytanie 2
An organization which is geared towards enabling good pricing decisions is mainly focused on empowering the decision-makers with arguments and tools.
False
True
Pytanie 3
Principles of responsibility accounting means that corrective action is taken by the higher management and is communicated to the responsibility center, i.e. the individual responsible
True
False
Pytanie 4
Net present value analysis is a method commonly used to evaluate fixed assets under a formal capital budgeting system.
False
True
Pytanie 5
A profit center is an organizational segment in which a manager is accountable for profits [revenues minus expenses] and the invested capital used by the segment.
False
True
Pytanie 6
Trend analysis consists of reviewing the trend line of various costs incurred to see if there are any unusual variances from the long-term pattern, and reporting the reasons for these changes to management.
False
True
Pytanie 7
Import duties are the costs that can be included in an inventory valuation.
True
False
Pytanie 8
The responsibility of the profit and revenue center is actually the same.
True
False
Pytanie 9
If you have very regionalized markets with similar customers, your organization should be organized around different regions. Conversely, the product structure could influence the way to divide the responsibilities.
True
False
Pytanie 10
The profile of the pricing professional varies depending on the set-up and the mission of the organization.
True
False
Pytanie 11
Cost accounting is helpful because it can identify where a company is spending its money, how much it earns and where money is being lost
False
True
Pytanie 12
A constraint is a restriction on the output of a system. The constraint acts as a throttle, essentially establishing an upper limit on the amount of output that can be created.
True
False
Pytanie 13
MIS helps managers evaluate progress and delegate work more efficiently, raising the overall efficiency of the organization.
False
True
Pytanie 14
In Cost Benefit Analysis each business function examines its own activities and works to improve performance by continually setting higher goals
True
False
Pytanie 15
Accounting Information System will collect, process, analyze and store financial data of a company
True
False
Pytanie 16
The advantage of MIS is to compare budgets and plans to actual performances and figure
True
False
Pytanie 17
Margin analysis calculating the mix of contribution margin and unit volume at which a business exactly breaks even, which is useful for determining price points for products and services
True
False
Pytanie 18
Engineer the product is a step in the target costing process.
True
False
Pytanie 19
AIS improves the effectiveness and efficiency by sharing the knowledge.
False
True
Pytanie 20
Fixed Costs are the costs to run the day-to-day operations of the company. However, operating costs or operating expenses are not usually traced back to the product being manufactured and can be fixed or variable.
False
True
Pytanie 21
When using traditional total absorption costing it is important to identify activity cost drivers.
False
True
Pytanie 22
The balanced scorecard uses
a mixture of financial and non-financial performance indicators.
False
True
Pytanie 23
The payback period generally
does not use discounted
cash flows. It is, however,
possible to incorporate them into payback models.
True
False
Pytanie 24
The discount rate normally
used to discount cash flows
is the interest rate charged by the Central Bank.
False
True
Pytanie 25
There may be differences
between accounting in
different countries because
of importance of factors
such as history or technology.
False
True
Pytanie 26
Strategic management
accounting is concerned
principally with short-term operational decisions.
True
False
Pytanie 27
Break-even point is variable
costs divided by contribution per unit.
False
True
Pytanie 28
When recovering costs for pricing we use total absorption costing. However, for stock valuation we use absorption costing or
marginal costing.
True
False
Pytanie 29
Strategic choice may involve exploiting inherent strengths such as the business's products or customer base and/or external
diversification through acquisition, merger or collaboration.
True
False
Pytanie 30
When using traditional total absorption costing it is important to identify activity cost drivers.
False
True
Pytanie 31
The accounting rate of return
is the only investment
appraisal technique that
focuses on profits not cash flows.
False
True
Pytanie 32
A cost is an actual past
expenditure.
False
True
Pytanie 33
The two main branches of
cost accounting are costing
and planning, control and performance.
True
False
Pytanie 34
Strategic management accounting is concerned principally with short-term operational decisions.
False
True
Pytanie 35
Break-even point is variable costs divided by contribution per unit.
False
True
Pytanie 36
Contribution is sales less variable costs.
True
False
Pytanie 37
A master budget is formed by feeding in the results from all the other budgets.
False
True
Pytanie 38
The balanced scorecard uses only financial information.
False
True
Pytanie 39
Strategic management
accounting looks at both internal and external environments of a business.
False
True
Pytanie 40
Flexing the budget means adjusting the budget to take into account the actual quantity produced.
False
True
Pytanie 41
The cost of activities in value chain analysis is determined by key cost drivers.
False
True
Pytanie 42
The four main capital
investment appraisal
techniques are payback period, accounting rate of
return, net present value and
internal rate of return.
False
True
Pytanie 43
The two main branches of management accounting are cost accounting and decision making.
True
False
Pytanie 44
Total absorption costing is where all the overheads incurred by a company are recovered in the valuation of stock.
False
True
Pytanie 45
Fixed costs are those that do
not vary with long-term
changes in the level of sales
or production.
True
False
Pytanie 46
Shareholders, analyst
advisers and Customers are examples of internal external users of accountant.
True
False
Pytanie 47
Discounted cash flow discounts the future
expected cash flows of a
project back to their present-
day monetary values.
True
False
Pytanie 48
SWOT analysis stands for strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats.
False
True
Pytanie 49
The product portfolio matrix consists of dogs, question
False
True
Pytanie 50
Net present value and the internal rate of return use discounted cash flows
True
False
Pytanie 51
In stock valuation, marginal costing is normally used in valuing stock in financial reporting.
True
False
Pytanie 52
The direct materials price variance is: (standard price per unit of material minus actual price per unit of material) multiplied by actual quantity of materials used.
False
True
Pytanie 53
The four main aspects of budgets are planning, coordinating, control and motivation.
False
True
Pytanie 54
Shareholders, analyst
advisers and Customers are examples of internal external users of accountant.
False
True
Pytanie 55
Flexing the budget means
adjusting the budget to take
into account the actual prices incurred.
False
True
Pytanie 56
Accountants perform other roles such as e.g.: auditing,
bookkeeping, financial
accounting, management accounting.
False
True
Pytanie 57
Benchmarking measures a business against its competitors.
False
True
Pytanie 58
Contribution/sales ratio is
profit divided by sales.
True
False
Pytanie 59
Spending to budget, padding the budget and creative budgeting are all common behavioral responses to budgeting.
False
True
Pytanie 60
The product portfolio matrix consists of dogs, question marks, stars and cash balls.
False
True
Pytanie 61
The discount rate normally used for discounting cash flows is the company's weighted average cost of capital.
True
False
Pytanie 62
The commonest limiting factor on the budgeting process is production.
False
True
Pytanie 63
We identify activity cost drivers in activity-based costing.
False
True
Pytanie 64
Non-financial items are not
important in decision makiing
True
False
Pytanie 65
In batch costing if we had
100 units that were 50%
complete this would equal 50
equivalent units.