Advanced Management Accounting Set 1

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This set of Advanced Management Accounting Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Advanced Management Accounting Set 1

Q1 | The business environmental factors are _________.
  • Static
  • Dynam
  • C. Both of the above
  • None of the above
Q2 | The control ratios used by the management to know whether the deviations of the actual performance from the budgeted performance are favourable or unfavourable are __________.
  • Capacity ratio and calendar ratio.
  • Efficiency ratio and calendar ratio.
  • Both A a
  • B D. None of these
Q3 | The problems associated with marginal costing are
  • Difficulties in divisions of costs
  • Problem of valuation of stocks
  • Ignores time elements
  • All of the above
Q4 | ___________ is not suitable where selling price is determined on the basis of cost-plus method.
  • Absorption costing
  • Marginal costing
  • Both A a
  • B D. None of the above
Q5 | Managers utilizes marginal costing for
  • Make or buy decision
  • Utilisation of additional capacity
  • Determination of dumping price
  • All of the above
Q6 | Which of the following are advantages of marginal costing?
  • Makes the process of cost accounting more simple
  • Helps in proper valuation of closing stock
  • Useful for standa
  • and budgetary control D. All of the above
Q7 | Given production is 1,00,000 units, fixed costs is Rs 2,00,000 Selling price is Rs 10 per unitand variable cost is Rs 6 per unit. Determine profit using technique of marginal costing.
  • Rs 2, 00,000
  • Rs 8, 00,000
  • Rs 6, 00,000
  • None of the above
Q8 | Contribution margin is also known as
  • Gross profit
  • Net profit
  • Earning before tax
  • Marginal income
Q9 | Contribution is the difference between
  • Sales and variable cost
  • Sales and fixed cost
  • Sales a
  • total cost D Factory cost and profit
Q10 | When fixed cost is Rs. 20,000 and Profit volume ratio is 25 per cent, then breakeven pointwill occur at
  • Rs. 5000
  • 5000 units
  • Rs. 80,000
  • 80,000 units
Q11 | Period cost means
  • Variable cost
  • Fixed costs
  • Prime cost
  • Factory cost
Q12 | If profit-volume ratio is 25 per cent and sales is Rs. 100,000, the variable cost will be
  • Rs. 25,000
  • Rs. 50,000
  • Rs. 75,000
  • None of the above
Q13 | The valuation of stock in marginal costing as compared to absorption costing is
  • Higher
  • Lower
  • Same
  • None of the above
Q14 | The term standard cost refers to the:
  • Average unit cost of product produced in the previous period
  • Budgeted unit cost of product produced in a particular period
  • Average unit cost of product produc
  • by other companies
Q15 | The term budgeted cost refers to the:
  • Estimated expenses of budgeted production
  • Actual expenses of budgeted production
  • Estimat
  • expenses of actual production
Q16 | ……………is concerned with providing information to management for taking managerialdecisions.
  • Management Accounting
  • Financial accounting
  • Cost accounting
  • All of these
Q17 | Which among the following is not a management accounting technique?
  • Standard costing
  • marginal costing
  • Project appraisal
  • None
Q18 | The essence of marginal costing is that ……………… cost is considered on the whole asseparate.
  • Fixed
  • variable
  • both of these
  • none of these
Q19 | A document that records the standard cost of a single unit of product is known as:
  • Bill of materials
  • Bill of product
  • Standa
  • cost card D. product expense card
Q20 | Following is used as tool for Cost Control
  • Marginal cost
  • Historical cost
  • Standa
  • cost (D) All of the above
Q21 | Which phrase best describes the current role of the managerial accountant?
  • Managerial accountants prepare the financial statements for an organization.
  • Managerial accountants facilitate the decision-making process within an organization.
  • Managerial accountants make the key decisions within an organization.
  • Managerial accountants are primarily information collectors.
Q22 | In comparison to the traditional manufacturing environment, overhead costs in a JITenvironment all the following are true except
  • is more easily tracked to products.
  • is frequently direct in nature.
  • includes rent, insurance a
  • utilities.
Q23 | As production increases within the relevant range,
  • variable costs will vary on a per unit basis.
  • variable costs will vary in total.
  • fix
  • costs will vary in total.
Q24 | Which of the following statements regarding graphs of fixed and variable costs is true?
  • Variable costs can be represented by a straight line where costs are the same for each data point.
  • Fixed costs can be represented by a straight line starting at the origin and continuing through each data point.
  • Fix
  • costs are zero when production is equal to zero.
Q25 | All of the following statements regarding budgeting is true except
  • Budgeting helps managers determine the resources needed to meet their goals and objectives.
  • Budgeting is a key ingredient in good decision-making.
  • Budgeting is a bookkeeping task
  • The focus of budgeting is planning.