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NEW QUESTION 37
Anatolian Textile Company produces blue-jean pants for a globally known blue-jean brand and its annual financial results are shown below.
Based on the table the sales-price variance for the company is
- A. €4,500 unfavorable
- B. €4,500 favorable
- C. €10,500 unfavorable
- D. €10,500 favorable
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 38
The price of gold is impacted by many variables A gold-mining company analyst wants to estimate the probability that the price of gold will decline by greater than 10%. Which one of the following approaches is the best analytic tool to use?
- A. Regression analysis
- B. Time series analysis
- C. Monte Carlo simulation
- D. Goal-seeking analysis
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 39
Hill Corporation sola some of its accounts receivable including one from Custom Company, to Dale incorporated without recourse, Because of this transaction.
- A. Custom Company has no recourse against Dale incorporated
- B. Custom Company has no recourse against Hill Corporation
- C. Hill Corporation has no recourse against Dale Incorporated
- D. Dale incorporated has no recourse against mil Corporation
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 40
A company's controller is preparing to allocate service department costs. The controller would like to use a cost allocation method that would be most accurate. The method the controller would most likely use is the
- A. dual allocation method
- B. direct method
- C. reciprocal method
- D. step-down method
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 41
Playtime inc. manufactures playground equipment and uses 60 board feet of lumber in each model no 643 produced The company, which anticipates selling 350 units of this model during April, plans to boost its finished goods inventory in April by 80 units in preparation for the peak summer season Playtime expects to manufacture 450 units in May Playtime has only 500 board feet of lumber on hand as of April 1 because of a temporary shortage, and typically maintains a lumber Inventory equal to 20% of the following month's production needs. On the basis of this information, how many board feet of lumber should the company plan to purchase in April?
- A. $30,700
- B. $31,200
- C. $31,700
- D. $31,900
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 42
Explain the concept of data encryption and discuss how It may be used to protect the email communications between ZFls payroll administrator and the payroll service provider.
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
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Explanation
Data encryption is coding the information in such a way that no one except the receiver who win nave the secret key or password would be able to access and read the information It Is a security measure done for protecting the Information In this case also the payroll information is sensitive and hence data encryption will be beneficial to ensure that the company confidential information about payroll is safeguarded against fraudulent attempts.
NEW QUESTION 43
A building materials retailer uses a LIFO method of valuing its inventory. The company has just introduced a new product. The following is the activity for the first month of this new product.
* Purchase of 3,000 units on the 2nd of the month at $5.00.
* Purchase of 6,000 units on the 12th of the month at $4.80.
* Purchase of 2,000 units on the 31st of the month at $5 60.
* Sales of the product were 4,000 units on the 20th of the month.
Using the periodic method, the ending value of the inventory would be
- A. $34,200.
- B. $35, 800.
- C. $35,000.
- D. $35,200.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 44
Which one of the following is the most important factor in the successful implementation of a balanced scorecard?
- A. Linking the scorecard to external criteria
- B. Obtaining management buy-in and support
- C. Setting appropriate measurement criteria
- D. Providing a feedback mechanism
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 45
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).
Answer:
Explanation:
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Explanation
- Strong cash position
- Experience in food industry through amine catering division
NEW QUESTION 46
Identify one external factor that provides opportunity for the Food-To-Go division.
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).
Answer:
Explanation:
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Explanation
Chanding trend of consumers to order the food instead of visiting the restaurants
NEW QUESTION 47
identity and explain one benefit and one limitation of outsourcing most of me payroll-related work to an outside payroll service provider.
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
See the Answer below in Explanation details.
Explanation
One of ihe advantage of the outsourcing is that the company management would have enough time to focus on its key strategic issues rather that payroll processing The downside of the outsourcing is confidentiality issue which might arise as key information about payroll would he shared with the outsource service provider.
NEW QUESTION 48
Describe one example of predictive data analytics that the proposed human resources management software can perform.
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
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Explanation
The HRm software can help lo predict the turnover rate of the labour which then can he used by the department heads to counter and ensure that the talent is retained within the company]
2nd Essay
NEW QUESTION 49
Which one of me following statements is correct concerning the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
- A. A company's Chief Accounting Officer cannot have been employed by the company's audit firm for the five years preceding the audit
- B. The five-member Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will be overseen by the AICPA and the FASB working together
- C. Corporate executives must personally certify the financial statements and company disclosures under the possibility of imprisonment
- D. The company's audit firm must be rotated every five years and the lead auditor must be rotated every year
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 50
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?
- A. $11,770 unfavorable
- B. $14,220 unfavorable
- C. $6,080 favorable
- D. $2,450 unfavorable
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 51
Return on investment (ROI) is a performance measure that requires managers to respond to several factors that are under their Influence or control Decisions Intended to influence ROI are often from a short-term perspective and may conflict with the long-term objectives of the organization. This lack of goal congruence can be minimized by
- A. allowing different minimum returns for different investments.
- B. requiring multiple-year measures of ROI and evaluating these results along with the residual incomes from the same periods.
- C. providing the manager with limitations on what can be used to influence the factors involved in computing the ROI.
- D. using the two components of ROI (investment turnover and return on sales) instead of only ROI.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 52
Throughout June. Carroll Company purchased 75,000 pounds of raw materials at a cost of $303,750 and used
60 000 pounds of these purchases in production Carroll's standards indicated that each unit of finished goods requires three pounds of material at a cost of $4 per pound Although Carroll had budgeted for 22,000 units of finished goods to be produced during June, only 19,800 units were actually made. The raw material price variance for June that would be most relevant when examining deviations from standard is
- A. $2,970 Unfavorable
- B. $3,300 Unfavorable
- C. $3,750 Unfavorable
- D. $3,000 Unfavorable
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 53
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?
- A. All of the under-applied manufacturing overhead should be charged to Cost of Goods Sold for the year.
- B. $12.500 of the under-applied manufacturing overhead should be charged to finished goods inventory and S37 500 should be charged to Cost of Goods Sold
- C. $12.500 of the under-applied manufacturing overhead should be charged to finished goods inventory and S37.500 should be treated as a period cost
- D. All of the under-applied manufacturing overhead should be earned over until the subsequent year and used to adjust the estimated predetermined rate for that year
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 54
Scully Tools Company is currently completing its master budget for the coming year Immediately before the master budget is approved, it is determined that December sales should be revised upward by S120.000 .
Scully purchases merchandise on a just-in-time basis, and remits cash immediately through electronic transfer All sales are on account. 20% of the sales are collected in the month of sale, and 80% in the month following the sale. Scully's gross profit percentage is 30%. What effect will this budget revision have on Scully's pro forma statement of cash flows?
- A. Cash will increase by $24,000
- B. Cash will decrease by $84,000
- C. Cash will increase by $36,000
- D. Cash will decrease by $60,000
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 55
in preparing Klein Corporation's master budget for the following calendar year, the manager of the Production Department requested the purchase of a new piece of machinery with a purchase price of $150.000 in addition, the cost of installing the machine would total $13.000. The purchase price of the machine would be financed by a 6%. 5-year loan with interest due quarterly. The amount Klein Corporation should include in its Capital Expenditures Budget due to this purchase is
- A. $172,000
- B. $22,000
- C. $163,000
- D. $13,000
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 56
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