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- March 6, 2021 at 3:26 am #613668AnonymousInactive
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Does anyone remember the answer of Section B risk question related to Maximax and maximin.
I remember selecting a hotspot type – Project 1 for 1st option and Project 2 for option 2.
I hope option 1 was Maximax.
March 6, 2021 at 5:35 am #613675Anybody got a question on calculating ROI and RI for two divisions?
March 6, 2021 at 11:13 am #613739yeah 1.39 is the target cost for actual sales. But the question was to calculate the gap. That is concerning me, because I understand that the option I selected was not what was asked
March 6, 2021 at 11:23 am #613740aytashi wrote:I have another MCQ question, which I couldn’t calculate. If someone did answer this question please share how you calculated it. I got confused because I didn’t know how to get budgeted number of units. Here is the question:
At some point I just decided to calculate mix variance using the formula (materials usage – yield variances. ) but still couldn’t get somewhere, because both usage and mix variances use budgeted number of units. how did you calculate usage variance?
March 6, 2021 at 11:24 am #613741aytashi wrote:simk wrote:Did anyone have the veggie pot question? They had asked us to calculate the cost gap and had given the cost per batch and the selling price. I read the situation multiple times but just couldn’t figure out how many units were in each batch (to be able to calculate cost per unit). What did you all do?
no Company 1 used 20% profit margin, and the second one used mark-up
March 6, 2021 at 11:29 am #613743Kevin.shah wrote:Does anyone remember the answer of Section B risk question related to Maximax and maximin.
for maximax you simply select the highest number in the table. don’t need to calculate EV. And for maximin you compare the smallest profits (or contributions) of each project and select the highest one.
March 6, 2021 at 11:39 am #613745rashard wrote:Anybody got a question on calculating ROI and RI for two divisions?
OMG that was so easy and tricky at the same time. One division had higher ROI than target, and another one had RI higher than it’s target. I think the main point was to distinguish the 2 in terms of assessing the performance of the manager or division. I remember I selected division west
March 6, 2021 at 5:48 pm #613787Yeah that’s what I got too. East didn’t satisfy both of the metrics, so no bonus for them. Only for West.
March 6, 2021 at 5:48 pm #613788Yes, I did. I did not expect 20 mark theory question. I tried to reply to Saadidu but it wouldn’t let me
March 7, 2021 at 5:06 am #613816AnonymousInactive- Topics: 0
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I meant whether Maximax was asked first or maximin… As I remember selecting Project 1 for 1st question and project 2 for next question
March 7, 2021 at 8:07 am #613824Section C, I got the question on coal price and usage variance and assessing the engineering manager’s performance based on the calculated variance. Also got the balanced scorecard – had to pick 2 goals per perspective, 2 performance measure per goal, and justify the reason for picking each goal.
Section B, I got targeting cost, flexible/flexed budgeting and the payoff table question
March 7, 2021 at 8:20 am #613825But a change in the number of trips affects the total coal usage for the month.
The revised number of journeys from 150 to 170 ultimately means coal usage was revised from 300 to 340 tonnes
March 7, 2021 at 9:24 am #613830@GraceOla
Yes, exactly. Therefore they have asked us in this question for the planning variance, which occurs due to change in the number of journeys. The operating variance is the comparison between the actual usage vs revised. However the total variance should be calculated between the acutal and original budget.March 7, 2021 at 11:03 am #613843simk wrote:Did anyone have the veggie pot question? They had asked us to calculate the cost gap and had given the cost per batch and the selling price. I read the situation multiple times but just couldn’t figure out how many units were in each batch (to be able to calculate cost per unit). What did you all do?
VEry good
March 7, 2021 at 10:21 pm #613879AnonymousInactive- Topics: 4
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Looks like input/output accounting under EMA section of syllabus
March 7, 2021 at 10:44 pm #613880AnonymousInactive- Topics: 4
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I think the ratio of c assets to c liabilities should be higher given the sale of 50% of inventory was at 100% mark up (assets have increased). I make it 1.84:1
March 7, 2021 at 10:46 pm #613881AnonymousInactive- Topics: 4
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What was your answer? I made it 1.84:1. Current liabilities remain the same, but assets have increased – right?
March 7, 2021 at 11:39 pm #613882AnonymousInactive- Topics: 4
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aytashi wrote:One more tricky question was to calculate environmental cost in input/output accounting. I’ve never seen calulation questions related to environmetal topics. Neither in revision kits nor workbook itself (I studied from BPP 2020 book and 2017-2018). So it was a bit confusing.
Looks like input/output accounting under EMA section of syllabus
March 7, 2021 at 11:41 pm #613883AnonymousInactive- Topics: 4
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Prepared for linear programming but not sign of it. Anyone have?
March 10, 2021 at 9:03 am #614085Your were given the profit margin and mark up as well so you had to apply that
March 12, 2021 at 2:10 pm #614290AnonymousInactive- Topics: 0
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For the variances Section C 3rd subquestion – 170 trips were to be made at a global rate which is 45. Only this was to be done right
March 19, 2021 at 7:23 am #614720aytashi wrote:One more tricky question was to calculate environmental cost in input/output accounting. I’ve never seen calulation questions related to environmetal topics. Neither in revision kits nor workbook itself (I studied from BPP 2020 book and 2017-2018). So it was a bit confusing.
What answer did you pick for this one? @aytashi
April 30, 2021 at 4:58 pm #619328aytashi wrote:I have another MCQ question, which I couldn’t calculate. If someone did answer this question please share how you calculated it. I got confused because I didn’t know how to get budgeted number of units. Here is the question:
In this question you will use material usage to answer. Material usage = mix + yield. You can work out the usage and yield variance and substitute into the formula above.
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