P3 Exam Question 51

M built a large factory last year and it has just been completed. The initial outflows on this project have a present value of $400 million and the entire project has a net present value of $30 million.
The initial phase of the project caused problems and there was an overspend of $35 million as there was unstable soil. The foundations had to be underpinned with large steel bars to ensure the building would be safe. There was no other suitable site for the project.
The construction could not be abandoned as the site would have had very little commercial value.
The Internal Audit department has been asked to carry out a post completion audit. What issues should it concentrate on?
  • P3 Exam Question 52

    A project has an NPV of £1,200,000. The present value of material costs which are included in the NPV calculation are £8,000,000.
    What is the sensitivity of the project to changes in material costs?
    Give your answer to the nearest whole percentage.

    P3 Exam Question 53

    CDE an online ticket sales agent, has unwittingly become an accomplice in cyber crime and is suffering attacks on its own business as a result CDE's website was poorly designed and cyber-attackers have managed to inject the site with malware, so that it collects all of CDE's customer log-in information and enables the cyber-attackers to retrieve it.
    The cyber-attackers subsequently use this information to set up Botnet agents in the customers' devices which are then used in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack whenever very popular tickets are being placed on sale such as international football matches.
    The cyber-attackers secure access to a single portal on the site and buy multiple tickets for subsequent sale on the black market while the DDoS causes all other portals to be overloaded preventing real fans acquiring the tickets at face value.
    Which TWO of the following apply in this scenario?
  • P3 Exam Question 54

    The safety guard on a piece of equipment was broken. The factory manager suspended an operator who refused to operate the equipment until it was repaired. The factory manager paid another operator a bonus for operating the damaged equipment until the safety guard could be repaired.
    What does this incident say about the control environment within that factory?
  • P3 Exam Question 55

    You are the Management Accountant for P, a food manufacturing company with an annual sales revenue of $5 million.
    You discover that the Production Manager's records are inconsistent. Raw materials purchased do not agree to the total recorded for transfers to production plus wastage. There is an average shortfall of 2% of purchases.
    You investigated and discovered that there are often mistakes made during manufacturing that results in food that is safe to eat, but cannot be sold because of visual flaws. The Production Manager is supposed to scrap all such damaged product and write all such losses off as waste, but you discovered that he has been giving the damaged food to a charity that assists homeless people. No records are made of such gifts in order to conceal the losses due to manufacturing errors.
    What should you do?