P2 Exam Question 1

A senior manager is concerned about the dysfunctional consequences of a company's current approach to budget preparation. The senior manager has discovered that budget holders are carrying budgetary slack forward from one period to the next without this being identified or challenged.
Which of the following approaches to budget preparation is the company using?
  • P2 Exam Question 2

    An organization produces only two products. Each month it produces 1,000 units of product A and
    10,000 units of product B.
    Using traditional absorption costing the products have very similar unit costs. However when costs are calculated using activity-based costing (ABC), product A's unit cost is significantly higher than that of product B.
    Which of the following factors has the potential to cause this difference?
    Select ALL that apply.
  • P2 Exam Question 3

    In an inflationary environment which is the correct way of calculating net present value (NPV)?
  • P2 Exam Question 4

    An organization employs a dual pricing basis for the transfer of components between its divisions. This means that:
  • P2 Exam Question 5

    The following data are available for an investment centre for the latest period. Where appropriate the data have been adjusted to reflect economic values.
    What cost of capital has been used to calculate the EVA?

    Give your answer to the nearest percentage.