CIMA C1Fundamentals of Management Accounting
CIMA C1Weekly QuizWeek 1 to 5
What are the main 4 reasons a company will calculate a cost value for its products?
Write down 4 major differences between Financial accounting & Management accounting
Managers in a business carry out 3 main activities, what are they?
Draw a diagram to illustrate the 3 main Levels of Management in a typical Company
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Draw a ‘typical’ Company organisation chart showing a range of different functions or disciplines
What is a Cost Unit? There are 3 main Cost Classifications, What
are they? With examples, describe the Direct &
Indirect Cost Classifications With examples, describe Production & Non-
Production Cost categories
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Last week we looked at a ‘cost structure/classification’ chart, draw it out
In Cost behaviour studies, there are often said to be 4 types of cost behaviour pattern, what are they? & sketch the appropriate graph for each.
What is the ‘Level of Activity’ a measure of? Give some examples of Semi-Variable Costs
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If you are given Total Costs for “ Levels of Activity’’, what method can you use to ‘split’ variable from fixed Costs?
Write out the ‘High/Low’ method, what is the grid you would use?
What adjustments might you make to the Total Costs for ‘Step Costs’ & ‘Bulk Discounts’, do you subtract Step Costs & add Bulk Discounts?: True or False?
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What is a: Cost centre? Revenue Centre? Profit Centre? Investment Centre? How do you measure Performance in an
Investment centre? What is the R.O.C.E. formula?
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What is an Overhead? What are the three ‘A’s? What is ‘Allocation’ of Overheads? What is ‘Apportionment’ of Overheads? What is re-Apportionment of Overheads? What is ‘Absorption’ of Overheads? Look at the diagram on the next slide & fill
in the areas you know
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DirectProduction
Costs
Full Absorption CostPer Unit
IndirectProduction
Costs
ProductionCost
Centre
ServiceCost
Centre
Direct MaterialsDirect LabourDirect Expenses
Allocate Directly:
AllocateApportion
Re-Apportion
Absorption
OAR = Budgeted O/H B Level of Activity
In order to re-apportion Service Centre Costs to Production Cost Centres, 2 methods are required in your syllabus, what are they?
What ‘golden rules’ do you need to follow with Service to Production re-apportionment?
Answer: Service to Service, reciprocal if necessary, then Service to Production.
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Absorption rates are NOT based on ‘Actual’ they use ‘Budgeted’ Overhead Costs? True or False?
Why are BOAR rates set in advance? What is the OAR Formula? What 3 methods attach themselves to the
‘Budgeted Level of Activity’ OAR Rates can be broken into 2 categories,
what are they? Answer: Blanket or Departmental
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Because BOAR’s are based on estimates, what is the issue that could occur at the end of the accounting period?
What is OVER Absorption? What is UNDER Absorption? You have been taught a ‘3 Box’ layout to
measure Under/Over Absorption, write out the pro-forma layout
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Define what job costing is What records are kept to keep track of job
costs? What is batch costing? How do you calculate the cost per unit
under batch costing? What is ‘pricing’? What are the TWO likely pricing methods
you have to use in CIMA C1?
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What is ‘Mark-up’ based on? What is ‘Margin’ based on? What is ‘Marginal’ costing?, what happens
to ‘Overhead’ Costs? Write out the template for Absorption
Costing Write out the template for Marginal Costing What is ‘Contribution’? What is deducted from Contribution to get
‘Net Profit’?
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IF Sales & Production quantities differ, the profits WILL DIFFER – True or False?
Write out a diagram showing what happens when Opening & Closing Stock differ or remain the same. These are KEY rules & need to be learned.
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If Op Stock > Close Stock
If Op Stock = Close Stock
If Op Stock < Close Stock
Absorption & Marginal Costing:
MC Profit > AC Profit
MC Profit = AC Profit
MC Profit < AC Profit
These are KEY Rules: remember them –
Process Costing has 2 Main features, what are they?
In out ‘T’ account, what is on the Debit & Credit sides?
What is a NORMAL LOSS? What is an ABNORMAL LOSS? What is an ABNORMAL GAIN? How do you calculate the Cost per Unit of
‘good’ output?
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What is a Conversion Cost? What is an Equivalent Unit? There are 3 steps to calculating an EU, what
are they?1. Statement of EU’s2. Cost per EU3. Statement of Evaluation
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What are Joint Products? What are By-products? Give examples Up to the ‘slit off’ point’ costs are classed as
joint or shared, after this point additional costs may be incurred for various products.
What methods are used to split joint or common costs?
1. Physical quantity2. Sales value
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