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Accounting for Managerial Decisions–MCQs with Answers
Prepared by:
Praveen MV
Asst.Professor of commerce
Govt. College Madappally
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- Who coined the concept of management accounting?
- Robert Anthony
- James H Bliss
- J. Batty
- Michael Porter
- The main role of management accounting is:
- Decision making
- Planning
- Direction
- Provision of information to management.
- The term management accounting was first coined in:
- 1960
- 1930
- 1950
- 1910
- The use of management accounting is:
- Compulsory
- Optional
- Mandatory
- Any of the above
- Which of the following is not a predictive tool of management accounting?
- Simulation
- Balanced score card
- Cash flow analysis
- KPIs
- Which of the following is not an analytical tool of management accounting?
- Ratio analysis
- Standard costing
- Budgetary control
- Cash flow analysis
- “Management Accounting is concerned with accounting information which is useful to management"-whose definition?
- Robert Anthony
- James H Bliss
- J. Batty
- Michael Porter
- Which of the following is not included in the scope of management accounting?
- Financial accounting
- Cost accounting
- Tax accounting
- None of these.
- Which of the following is not a feature of management accounting?
- Accounting information
- Future oriented
- Management oriented
- Compulsory accounting.
- The process of quantifying the efficiency and effectiveness of past actions is called:
- Simulation
- Decision accounting
- Revaluation accounting
- Performance measurement.
- Which of the following is/are the tools of financial performance measures?
- ROI
- EVA
- Residual income
- All of these.
- Which of the following is not a tool for financial performance measure?
- EVA
- Balanced score card
- Residual income
- ROI
- “NOPAT-(Capital Employed x WACC)”=?
- ROI
- EVA
- Residual income
- EBIT
- Net profit before Tax-(average capital employed x Desired minimum rate of return) =?
- ROI
- EVA
- Residual income
- EBIT
- Operating profit ratio X Capital turnover ratio=?
- ROI
- EVA
- Residual income
- EBIT
- Return on Investment (ROI) was developed by:
- Michael Porter
- Du Pont Company
- Taichi Okno
- None of these
- Which of the following is a tool of financial as well as non-financial performance measure?
- Economic Value Added
- Residual income
- NOPAT
- Balanced Score card
- The term Balanced Score Card coined by:
- Jimmy Carter
- Art Schneiderman
- Taichi Okno
- Robert Anthony
- ---------- Integrates financial and non- financial performance measures.
- Economic value added
- WACC
- Balanced Score card
- SCBA
- SCBA stands for----------
- Strategic Control for Business Administration
- Strategic Cost and Benefit Administration
- Social Cost Benefit Analysis
- Socially Controlled Benefit Analysis.
- Which of the following is not a perspective of balanced score card?
- Internal process
- Customer
- Financial perspective
- Value chain
- Customer retention and warranty claims are tools of performance measure in balance score card under------------- perspective.
- Financial perspective
- Internal process
- Customer
- Learning and growth.
- Employees training and number of patents are tools of performance measure in balance score card under------------- perspective.
- Financial perspective
- Internal process
- Customer
- Learning and growth.
- Defect rates and lead times are tools of performance measure in balance score card under- ---------- perspective.
- Financial perspective
- Internal process
- Customer
- Learning and growth.
- Operating income and sales growth are tools of performance measure in balance score card under------------- perspective.
- Financial perspective
- Internal process
- Customer
- Learning and growth.
- Zero based budgeting is also known as:
- Scratch based budgeting
- De nova budgeting
- Priority based budgeting
- All of these
- Zero based budgeting was first applied by:
- Abraham Lincon
- Jimmy Carter
- Peter A phyrr
- Alex Ouchy
- ZBB coined out by :
- Art Schneiderman
- Jimmy Carter
- Peter A phyrr
- Taichi Okno
- ---------- budgeting pay more attention on overhead costs.
- ZBB
- ABB
- Performance budgeting
- Traditional budgeting
- --------- budgets are prepared after justifying the cost drivers.
- ZBB
- ABB
- Flexible budget
- Cost budget
- The difference between actual sales and break even sales is:
- Contribution
- Profit volume rate
- Margin of safety
- Gross margin
- Net Avoidable fixed cost divided by Contribution per unit is equal to:
- PV ratio
- Break Even point
- Contribution
- Shutdown point
- Marginal cost does not include----------
- Variable cost
- Fixed cost
- Variable Overhead
- Direct expenses
- In marginal costing, stock of finished goods valued at---------
- Fixed cost
- Cost or market price whichever is less
- Market price
- Variable cost
- At break Even Point--- is equal to fixed cost.
- Profit
- Loss
- Contribution
- Sales
- The BEP -------- when selling price is increased.
- Increases
- Decreases
- Remain unchanged
- Any of the above.
- Under marginal costing product cost is equal to-----------
- Prime cost
- Prime cost + variable overhead
- Cost of production
- Cost of sales
- An increase in the variable cost----------
- Increases PV ratio
- Decreases PV ratio
- Increases Profit
- Increases contribution
- Sales x PV ratio is equal to---------
- Profit
- Contribution
- BEP
- Margin of Safety
- Contribution / PV ratio is equal to-------
- BEP
- Sales
- Fixed cost
- Variable cost
- Profit/PV ratio is equal to-
- Net profit
- Contribution
- BEP
- Margin of Safety
- Sales price per unit Rs.10, Variable cost Rs.8 per unit and fixed cost is Rs.20,000, then BEP in units is----------
- 10,000
- 16,000
- 2,000
- 2,500
- The difference between gross profit and gross margin is----------
- Fixed cost
- Variable cost
- Net profit
- Net loss
- Actual sales is Rs.5,00,000 and BEP sales is 3,00,000, then margin of safety percentage is:
- 20%
- 40%
- 33.33%
- 25%
- If sales is Rs.2,50,000 and PV ratio is 40%, contribution will be:
- 80,000
- 50,000
- 1,00,000
- 25,000
- Margin of safety x Profit volume ratio is
- BEP
- Angle of incidence
- Margin of safety in units
- Profit.
- Contribution is also known as:
- Share Capital
- Gross profit
- Gross margin
- Margin of safety
- -----------is formed as curve by the intersection of total cost and total revenue.
- BEP
- Angle of incidence
- Margin of safety
- Key factor
- Variable cost of a product is Rs.10 and firm has an overall PV ratio @ 60%, what will be its selling price?
- Rs.60
- Rs.6
- Rs.25
- Rs.16
- While making make or buy decision under marginal costing, external purchase price of the articles must be compared with:
- Its Fixed cost
- Its total cost
- Its variable cost
- Its prime cost.
- Shut down cost is:
- Avoidable fixed cost
- Unavoidable fixed cost
- Avoidable Variable cost
- Unavoidable variable cost.
- Profit volume ratio can be improved by:
- Reducing variable cost
- Reducing the selling price
- Increasing the fixed cost
- Increasing the key factor
- Profit volume ratio cannot be calculated by using:
- Profit/volume of sales
- Profit/volume of costs
- Changes in profit / changes in sales
- Changes in profit / changes in contribution
- Fixed cost Rs.50,000, Profit Rs.30,000, cost of goods sold Rs.170,000, what is PV ratio?
- 25%
- 50%
- 20%
- 40%
- Cost of capital is the -------- rate of return expected by the investors.
- Maximum
- Average
- Minimum
- Zero
- In relation to cost of capital, k = ro +----------+-----------
- p,d
- b,f
- e, p
- Any of the above.
- According to traditional approach cost of capital is effected by--------
- Debt-equity mix
- Dividend
- EBIT
- EAT
- ---------- is the opportunity cost of dividend foregone by the shareholders.
- Cost of equity
- Cost of retained earnings
- Cost of debt
- Cost of preference shares.
- Which of the following is/ are the method of calculating cost of equity?
- Dividend yield method
- Earning yield method
- Realized yield method
- All of these.
- ------------- is the rate of return the firm requires from investment in order to increase the value of the firm in the market place
- Net Present Value
- Internal Rate of Return
- Average Rate of Return
- Cost of capital.
- ---------- is the weighted average cost of capital.
- Specific cost
- Marginal cost
- Composite cost
- Any of these.
- The span of time within which the investment made for the project will be recovered by the net returns of the project is known as:
- Period of return
- Payback period
- Span of return
- None of the above
- Projects with -------- are preferred
- Lower payback period
- Normal payback period
- Higher payback period
- Any of the above
- --------- on capital is called 'Cost of capital'.
- Lower expected return
- Normally expected return
- Higher expected return
- None of the above
- The values of the future net incomes discounted by the cost of capital are called:
- Average capital cost
- Discounted capital cost
- Net capital cost
- Net present values
- Under Net present value criterion, a project is approved if
- Its net present value is positive
- The funds are unlimited
- Both (A) and (B)
- None of the above
- The internal Rate of Return (IRR) criterion for project acceptance, under theoretically infinite funds is: accept all projects which have:
- IRR equal to the cost of capital
- IRR greater than the cost of capital
- IRR less than the cost of capital
- Both a&b above
- Which of the following is non-discounting method in capital budgeting?
- Net present value
- Profitability index
- Internal Rate of Return
- Accounting Rate of return
- The project is accepted:
- If the profitability index is equal to one
- If the profitability index is less than one
- If the profitability index is greater than one
- Both (b) and (c)
- Where capital availability is unlimited and the projects are not mutually exclusive, for the same cost of capital, following criterion is used.
- Net present value
- Internal Rate of Return
- Profitability Index
- Any of the above
- A project is accepted when:
- Net present value is greater than zero
- Internal Rate of Return will be greater than cost of capital
- Profitability index will be greater than unity
- Any of the above
- With limited finance and a number of project proposals at hand, select that package of projects which has:
- The maximum net present value
- Internal rate of return is greater than cost of capital
- Profitability index is greater than unity
- Any of the above
- A project may be regarded as high risk project when:
- It has smaller variance of outcome but a high initial investment
- It has larger variance of outcome and high initial investment
- It has smaller variance of outcome and a low initial investment
- It has larger variance of outcome and low initial investment
- Following is (are) the method(s) for adjustment of risks.
- Risk-adjusted Discounting Rate
- Risk Equivalence Coefficient Method
- Both (a) and (b)
- None of the above
- Profitability Index is also known as:
- Sensitivity index
- Benefit cost ratio
- Profit volume Ratio
- All of these
- ---------- is the point at which Net Present Value becomes zero;
- Break Even point
- Average Rate of return
- Internal Rate of return
- Profitability index
- Which of the following is not a method of capital budgeting, under risk and uncertainty?
- Probability assignment
- Risk adjusted discount rate
- Certainty equivalent
- Discounted pay back
- Under which method, three types of cash flows such as optimistic, pessimistic and most likely cash flows are estimated?
- Probability assignment
- Risk adjusted discount rate
- Certainty equivalent
- Sensitivity analysis
- --------- is graphical representation of alternative courses of action and the possible outcomes and the risk associated with each action.
- Pivot table
- Sensitivity analysis
- Decision tree
- All of these.
- Risk free cash flow /risky cash flow =------------.
- Expected cash flow
- Probable cash flow
- Net terminal Value
- CE Co-efficient
- An investment appraisal approach which gives a precise measure of risk associated with a project is:
- Probability assignment
- Sensitivity analysis
- Profitability index
- Standard deviation.
- ----------- provides absolute measure of risk in a project.
- Standard deviation
- Sensitivity analysis
- Profitability index
- Probability assignment.
- The higher the co-efficient of variation, higher is the-------- in the project
- Profitability
- Return
- Risk
- Capital
- ------------ is a comprehensive view of all the possibilities associated with a proposed project.
- Co-efficient of variation
- Probability assignment
- Sensitivity analysis
- Decision tree.
- Activity Based Costing is developed by:
- Kaplan & Cooper
- Ouchy
- Taichi Okno
- Moulin
- --------- is a technique of costing which is based on the benefit received from indirect costs.
- Life Cycle costing
- Target costing
- Activity based costing
- Standard costing.
- In Activity based costing, the cost of an activity in called:
- Cost driver
- Target cost
- Cost pool
- Cost object.
- In activity based costing, ---------are the factors which influences the cost.
- Cost pool
- Cost centre
- Cost driver
- Cost object.
- ------------- is the technique of estimating permissible market driven cost.
- Life Cycle costing
- Target costing
- Activity based costing
- Standard costing.
- ---------- Technique of costing considers all the cost to be incurred during the entire life of the project.
- Life Cycle costing
- Target costing
- Activity based costing
- Standard costing.
- ------------ is the difference between target selling price and desired profit margin.
- Activity cost
- Upstream cost
- Downstream cost
- Target cost
- Under -------- total cost are classified into upstream cost, manufacturing cost and downstream cost.
- Life Cycle costing
- Target costing
- Activity based costing
- Standard costing.
- Traditional costing is also known as:
- Full costing
- Volume based costing
- Proportion based costing
- All of these.
- ------------ refers to the system of cost reduction based on a series of gradual and small improvements rather than drastic changes in the manufacturing process.
- Throughput costing
- Quality costing
- Kaizen costing
- Transaction costing
- Which of the following is also known as transaction costing/accounting?.
- Throughput costing
- Quality costing
- Kaizen costing
- Activity based costing
- Under 'throughput costing', only --------- is treated as direct cost.
- Direct material
- Direct labour
- Direct expense
- Indirect cost
- Which of the following Japanese concept means “Change for better'?
- Kan Ban
- Kaizen
- JIT
- TQM
- 'Theory of Constraints' was developed by:
- Robert S Kaplan
- Robin Cooper
- Goldratt and J.Cox
- Waldron
- Under life cycle costing, research and development cost, design cost etc., are considered as:
- Activity cost
- Upstream cost
- Downstream cost
- Target cost
- ----------- is a practice of identifying, studying and building upon the best practices of organizational role models.
- Core competency
- Bench marking
- Spying
- Conglomerating
- Which of the following is not a component of Quality costing?
- Cost of failure
- Cost of quality maintenance
- Appraisal cost
- None of these
- Which of the following is/ are the primary activities under Porter's Value chain?
- Inbound logistics
- Procurement
- Marketing and selling
- All of these.
- Which of the following is/are considered as supportive activities under Porter's Value Chain?
- Infrastructure
- HRM
- Procurement
- All of these.
- Cost of new debentures incorporates:
- Floatation cost
- No floatation cost
- Only a part of floatation cost
- None of these.
- ----------- Method of capital budgeting also known as ‘trial and error' method.
- ARR
- NPV
- BCR
- IRR
- The process of selecting a combination of investment proposals for the purpose of effectively utilizing firm's limited fund is known as:
- Capital budgeting
- Project screening
- Capital rationing
- Capital expending
- Which of the following is not statistical technique of capital budgeting?
- Sensitivity analysis method
- Co-efficient of variation method
- Probability assignment method
- Certainty equivalent method
- The philosophy of “Just in Time” developed by:
- Robert S Kaplan
- Michael Porter
- R.Cooper
- Taichi Okno
- ---------- System advocates ‘Zero Inventory System'.
- TQM
- JIT
- VED system
- Flexible manufacturing system.
- Which of the following is/are not discounting techniques of capital budgeting?
- IRR
- Benefit Cost Ratio
- Discounted Payback
- Average rate of return
- Which of the following is not a benefit of implementing JIT?
- Cost reduction
- Variability increase
- Work in process reduction
- Quality improvement.
- Kan ban is associated with all of the following except:
- Signaling when it is time for next batch
- Reducing set up time
- Reducing batch size
- Increasing material handling
- The word "Kanban" means
- Low inventory
- Employee empowerment
- Card
- Continuous improvement.
- which one of the following is not a requirement of JIT system
- quality deliveries on time
- low set up time
- employee empowerment
- Strong job specialization.
- "Fish bone diagram is also known as:
- Cause and effect diagram
- Poke-yoke diagram
- Kaizen diagram
- Taguchi diagram
- ............is the practice of charging all costs, both variable and fixed, to operations, processes, or products.
- Marginal costing
- Absorption costing
- Differential costing
- None of these
- In absorption costing, managerial decision making is based upon
- Profit
- Contribution
- Costs
- None of these
- Given sales = Rs.1,50,000, Fixed costs = Rs.30,000, Profit =Rs. 40,000. The variable cost is Rs.....
- 110000
- 80000
- 120000
- 10000
- The Profit/Volume ratio or marginal ratio expresses the relation of to sales.
- Profit
- Marginal cost
- Contribution
- None of these
- Which of the following measures helps to increase the P/V Ratio?
- increasing the selling price per unit
- reducing the variable or marginal cost
- changing the sales mixture
- all of these
- Given sales = 1,00,000, Profit = 10,000, variable cost = 70%. The sales required to earn a profit of Rs.400000 is----------
- 1,40,000
- 14,00,000
- 20,00,000
- 2,00,000
- Marginal cost is the ..........cost of producing an additional unit of output
- variable
- fixed
- semi variable
- all of these
- Gross margin is the another name of-----
- Contribution
- Net Profit
- Gross Sales
- none of these
- Which of the following shows the shows the degree of profitability?
- Angle of contribution
- Angle of incidence
- Margin of safety
- Both b and c above
- At Breakeven point contribution will be equal to----------
- Variable cost
- Fixed price
- Profit
- None of these
- The ratio of profit(gross) to Volume of sales called----------
- GP Ratio
- NP Ratio
- PV Ratio
- OP ratio
- Marginal cost is the aggregate of prime cost and
- Fixed overheads
- Variable overheads
- Contribution
- Work cost
- When fixed cost is deducted from contribution, the balance will be--------
- Variable cost
- Gross profit
- Total cost
- sales
- When sales are Rs.30000 and P/V ratio is 20% then contribution will be--------
- 2000
- 4000
- 6000
- 8000
- When fixed costs are Rs.4000 and Gross margin ratio is 25%, then breakeven point will be--------
- 40000
- 20000
- 16000
- 10000
- When Profit is Rs.5000 and P/v ratio is 20%, Margin of safety is---------
- 10000
- 25000
- 30000
- 50000
- Fixed costs Rs.6000, Profit required Rs.4000 and P/v ratio is 50%, then sales required will be---------
- 6000
- 4000
- 10000
- 20000
- Variable cost ratio is 60% Sales Rs.20000 and fixed cost Rs.5000, then profit will be
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