P2 May 2012 Question Paper For Website
P2 May 2012 Question Paper For Website
P2 Performance Management
23 May 2012 Wednesday Afternoon Session
Instructions to candidates
You are allowed three hours to answer this question paper.
You are allowed 20 minutes reading time before the examination begins
during which you should read the question paper and, if you wish, make
annotations on the question paper. However, you will not be allowed, under
any circumstances, to open the answer book and start writing or use your
calculator during this reading time.
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before attempting the question concerned (that is all parts and/or subquestions).
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question paper will not be submitted for marking.
You should show all workings as marks are available for the method you use.
ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY.
Section A comprises 5 questions and is on pages 2 to 6.
Section B comprises 2 questions and is on pages 8 to 11.
Maths tables and formulae are provided on pages 13 to 16.
The list of verbs as published in the syllabus is given for reference on page
19.
Write your candidate number, the paper number and examination subject title
in the spaces provided on the front of the answer book. Also write your
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SECTION A 50 MARKS
[You are advised to spend no longer than 18 minutes on each question in this
section.]
Required:
(a)
(i)
Calculate the average direct labour cost per batch of the first four batches.
(2 marks)
(ii)
th
(iii)
Calculate the contribution earned from the product over its lifetime.
(2 marks)
Due to the low lifetime product volume of 8,000 units the company now believes that
learning may continue throughout its entire product life.
(b)
Calculate the rate of learning required (to the nearest whole percentage)
to achieve a lifetime product contribution target of $150,000, assuming
that a constant rate of learning applies throughout the products life.
(4 marks)
(Total for Question One = 10 marks)
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Question Two
A small town with a population of 35,000 has a community library. The nearest alternative
library is 15 miles away. A further 20,000 people live within a ten mile radius of the town. Of
these, 5,000 people live nearer to the alternative library.
The library has 25,000 registered users and on average each of the registered users borrows
two books and one DVD every week. The library has 125,000 books and 50,000 DVDs on its
inventory lists, though this is constantly changing as old items are removed and new items
are added.
The library offers a variety of types of book and DVD in order to attract interest from a large
range of potential users, and for some of the more popular items it has more than one copy.
The library does not charge a fee to its users; it is funded by donations and by government.
However it does need to measure its performance and is considering the use of a Balanced
Scorecard.
Required:
(a)
(b)
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Question Three
A company has prepared the following summary from its functional budgets for the year
ended 30th September 2013.
$000
Sales (100,000 units)
Opening inventory (zero units)
Production costs (115,000 units):
Direct materials
Direct labour
Variable overhead
Fixed overhead
$000
1,500
nil
460
575
115
230
1,380
180
Cost of Sales
1,200
Gross Profit
300
200
Net Profit
100
The directors of the company have now met to review the above statement. They have
decided to revise the budget as follows:
Due to competition, reduce the selling price by $5 per unit and despite the reduction
in selling price the demand for the product will reduce to 90,000 units.
Increase some of the unit production costs: direct labour by 10% and variable
overhead by 5%. No change is expected to any other costs.
Required:
(a)
Prepare a summary statement (in the same format as that shown above)
which clearly shows the effect of all of the changes proposed by the
directors of the company.
(6 marks)
(b)
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Question Four
A company has predicted its sales demand for each of the four quarters of 2013 as follows:
Quarter
Sales volume (units)
1
100,000
2
110,000
3
190,000
4
140,000
The company has a normal production capacity of 135,000 units per quarter without needing
to utilise any overtime working. However the capacity can be increased by up to 40% by
working overtime.
It is current company policy to manufacture units using a constant level production system.
This means that although the opening and closing levels of inventory for the year are zero
units there are increases and decreases in the quarterly inventory levels. On this basis the
selling price, variable production costs and contribution for 2013 are expected to be as
follows:
$ per unit
90.00
Selling price
Direct materials
Direct labour
Variable production overhead
30.00
35.00
10.00
Contribution
75.00
15.00
However, any overtime working will increase the unit direct labour cost by 50% and the unit
variable production overhead cost by 30% for those units produced during overtime working.
In addition, the company incurs a storage cost of $4 per unit per quarter for each item that is
held in inventory. These costs are not included in the production costs above.
The company is considering whether it should change to a just-in-time (JIT) production
system, but is concerned that due to the fluctuating levels of its sales demand this may not be
financially beneficial. If the company did change to a JIT production system:
Required:
(a)
(b)
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Question Five
A company uses total cost plus pricing. Recent results show that profits are falling and that
the company is losing market share in what is becoming a very competitive market.
Required:
(a)
(b)
End of Section A
Section B starts on page 8
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SECTION B 50 MARKS
[You are advised to spend no longer than 45 minutes on each question in this section.]
R
$/unit
126
X
$/unit
150
14
15
24
8
12
73
28
12
36
16
7
99
35
21
30
20
12
118
Profit
17
27
32
Product
Market selling price
The management of WRX has predicted the demand for these products for July as follows:
Product W
Product R
Product X
500 units
800 units
1,600 units
These demand estimates do NOT include an order from a major customer to supply 400 units
per month of each of the three products, at a discount of $10 per unit from the market selling
price.
During July the management of WRX anticipate that there will be a shortage of material B,
and that only 17,500 kgs will be available.
It is not possible for WRX to hold inventory of any raw materials, work in progress or finished
products.
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Required:
(a)
WRX has now realised that the contract with the major customer does not have
to be met in full for any of the three products. The customer will accept whatever
WRX is prepared to supply at the contracted prices but they will charge a
financial penalty if WRX does not supply them in full in July.
(b)
Calculate the lowest value of the financial penalty that the major customer
would need to insert in the contract to ensure that WRX meets its order in
full in July.
(8 marks)
(c)
Now that you have presented your answers to (a) and (b) above to the management
team of WRX, the production manager has advised that, due to holidays, the number of
direct labour hours available will be reduced to a total of 9,800 hours in July.
A decision has been made that WRX will fulfil its order with the major customer in full in
July, and it has been agreed that a linear programming model will be used to determine
the optimum usage of the resources that will be available after setting aside those
required for the major customers order.
Required:
(i)
Identify the objective function and the constraints to be used in the linear
programming model to determine the optimum usage of the remaining
resources to maximise the companys profits for July.
(6 marks)
(ii)
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Question Seven
The GHYD company comprises two divisions: GH and YD.
GH manufactures components using a specialised machine. It sells the same components
both externally and to YD. The variable costs of producing the component are as follows:
Direct materials
Direct labour
Variable overhead
$/unit
25.00
35.00
10.00
70.00
GH currently sells its components to the external market for $125 per unit.
GH also sells 4,000 components per month to YD. These are transferred at the same price as
the external selling price.
YD uses two of these components in each unit of its CX product. The current selling price of
the CX product is $375 per unit and at this selling price the demand for the CX is 2,000 units
per month. The variable costs of producing a unit of CX are as follows:
Direct materials
Components transferred from GH @ $125 each
Direct labour
Variable overhead
$/unit
35.00
250.00
15.00
10.00
At this level of activity the total monthly contribution earned by YD from the sale of the CX
product is $130,000.
An analysis of the demand for the CX product indicates that for every $25 increase in its
selling price the monthly demand would reduce by 500 units, and that for every $25 decrease
in its selling price demand would increase by 500 units.
Note: If P = a - bx then MR = a - 2bx
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Required:
(a)
(i)
Calculate the selling price per unit of CX that would maximise the profits
generated by that product for the YD division.
(4 marks)
(ii)
Calculate, based on the selling price you calculated in (a)(i) above, the
monthly contribution that CX would generate for:
GHYD as a whole
GH division
YD division
(b)
GHYD has now reviewed its transfer pricing policy and decided that all
transfer prices should be set so as to lead to optimal decision making for
the company as a whole. Assuming that the transfer price for the
component is changed to reflect this new policy:
(i)
Calculate the selling price per unit of CX that would maximise the profits
earned by CX for the company as a whole. Note: you should assume
that there is sufficient capacity within the company.
(4 marks)
(ii)
Calculate, based on the selling price you calculated in (b)(i) above, the
monthly contribution that CX would generate for:
GHYD as a whole
GH division
YD division
(c)
Discuss, using your answers to (a) and (b) above, the impact that
alternative transfer prices have on the divisional profits of GH and YD and
on the company as a whole.
(8 marks)
(Total for Question Seven = 25 marks)
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Periods
(n)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1%
0.990
0.980
0.971
0.961
0.951
0.942
0.933
0.923
0.914
0.905
0.896
0.887
0.879
0.870
0.861
0.853
0.844
0.836
0.828
0.820
2%
0.980
0.961
0.942
0.924
0.906
0.888
0.871
0.853
0.837
0.820
0.804
0.788
0.773
0.758
0.743
0.728
0.714
0.700
0.686
0.673
3%
0.971
0.943
0.915
0.888
0.863
0.837
0.813
0.789
0.766
0.744
0.722
0.701
0.681
0.661
0.642
0.623
0.605
0.587
0.570
0.554
4%
0.962
0.925
0.889
0.855
0.822
0.790
0.760
0.731
0.703
0.676
0.650
0.625
0.601
0.577
0.555
0.534
0.513
0.494
0.475
0.456
7%
0.935
0.873
0.816
0.763
0.713
0.666
0.623
0.582
0.544
0.508
0.475
0.444
0.415
0.388
0.362
0.339
0.317
0.296
0.277
0.258
8%
0.926
0.857
0.794
0.735
0.681
0.630
0.583
0.540
0.500
0.463
0.429
0.397
0.368
0.340
0.315
0.292
0.270
0.250
0.232
0.215
9%
0.917
0.842
0.772
0.708
0.650
0.596
0.547
0.502
0.460
0.422
0.388
0.356
0.326
0.299
0.275
0.252
0.231
0.212
0.194
0.178
10%
0.909
0.826
0.751
0.683
0.621
0.564
0.513
0.467
0.424
0.386
0.350
0.319
0.290
0.263
0.239
0.218
0.198
0.180
0.164
0.149
Periods
(n)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
11%
0.901
0.812
0.731
0.659
0.593
0.535
0.482
0.434
0.391
0.352
0.317
0.286
0.258
0.232
0.209
0.188
0.170
0.153
0.138
0.124
12%
0.893
0.797
0.712
0.636
0.567
0.507
0.452
0.404
0.361
0.322
0.287
0.257
0.229
0.205
0.183
0.163
0.146
0.130
0.116
0.104
13%
0.885
0.783
0.693
0.613
0.543
0.480
0.425
0.376
0.333
0.295
0.261
0.231
0.204
0.181
0.160
0.141
0.125
0.111
0.098
0.087
14%
0.877
0.769
0.675
0.592
0.519
0.456
0.400
0.351
0.308
0.270
0.237
0.208
0.182
0.160
0.140
0.123
0.108
0.095
0.083
0.073
17%
0.855
0.731
0.624
0.534
0.456
0.390
0.333
0.285
0.243
0.208
0.178
0.152
0.130
0.111
0.095
0.081
0.069
0.059
0.051
0.043
18%
0.847
0.718
0.609
0.516
0.437
0.370
0.314
0.266
0.225
0.191
0.162
0.137
0.116
0.099
0.084
0.071
0.060
0.051
0.043
0.037
19%
0.840
0.706
0.593
0.499
0.419
0.352
0.296
0.249
0.209
0.176
0.148
0.124
0.104
0.088
0.079
0.062
0.052
0.044
0.037
0.031
20%
0.833
0.694
0.579
0.482
0.402
0.335
0.279
0.233
0.194
0.162
0.135
0.112
0.093
0.078
0.065
0.054
0.045
0.038
0.031
0.026
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Periods
(n)
1
2
3
4
5
1 (1+ r ) n
r
1%
0.990
1.970
2.941
3.902
4.853
2%
0.980
1.942
2.884
3.808
4.713
3%
0.971
1.913
2.829
3.717
4.580
4%
0.962
1.886
2.775
3.630
4.452
7%
0.935
1.808
2.624
3.387
4.100
8%
0.926
1.783
2.577
3.312
3.993
9%
0.917
1.759
2.531
3.240
3.890
10%
0.909
1.736
2.487
3.170
3.791
6
7
8
9
10
5.795
6.728
7.652
8.566
9.471
5.601
6.472
7.325
8.162
8.983
5.417
6.230
7.020
7.786
8.530
5.242
6.002
6.733
7.435
8.111
5.076
5.786
6.463
7.108
7.722
4.917
5.582
6.210
6.802
7.360
4.767
5.389
5.971
6.515
7.024
4.623
5.206
5.747
6.247
6.710
4.486
5.033
5.535
5.995
6.418
4.355
4.868
5.335
5.759
6.145
11
12
13
14
15
10.368
11.255
12.134
13.004
13.865
9.787
10.575
11.348
12.106
12.849
9.253
9.954
10.635
11.296
11.938
8.760
9.385
9.986
10.563
11.118
8.306
8.863
9.394
9.899
10.380
7.887
8.384
8.853
9.295
9.712
7.499
7.943
8.358
8.745
9.108
7.139
7.536
7.904
8.244
8.559
6.805
7.161
7.487
7.786
8.061
6.495
6.814
7.103
7.367
7.606
16
17
18
19
20
14.718
15.562
16.398
17.226
18.046
13.578
14.292
14.992
15.679
16.351
12.561
13.166
13.754
14.324
14.878
11.652
12.166
12.659
13.134
13.590
10.838
11.274
11.690
12.085
12.462
10.106
10.477
10.828
11.158
11.470
9.447
9.763
10.059
10.336
10.594
8.851
9.122
9.372
9.604
9.818
8.313
8.544
8.756
8.950
9.129
7.824
8.022
8.201
8.365
8.514
Periods
(n)
1
2
3
4
5
11%
0.901
1.713
2.444
3.102
3.696
12%
0.893
1.690
2.402
3.037
3.605
13%
0.885
1.668
2.361
2.974
3.517
14%
0.877
1.647
2.322
2.914
3.433
17%
0.855
1.585
2.210
2.743
3.199
18%
0.847
1.566
2.174
2.690
3.127
19%
0.840
1.547
2.140
2.639
3.058
20%
0.833
1.528
2.106
2.589
2.991
6
7
8
9
10
4.231
4.712
5.146
5.537
5.889
4.111
4.564
4.968
5.328
5.650
3.998
4.423
4.799
5.132
5.426
3.889
4.288
4.639
4.946
5.216
3.784
4.160
4.487
4.772
5.019
3.685
4.039
4.344
4.607
4.833
3.589
3.922
4.207
4.451
4.659
3.498
3.812
4.078
4.303
4.494
3.410
3.706
3.954
4.163
4.339
3.326
3.605
3.837
4.031
4.192
11
12
13
14
15
6.207
6.492
6.750
6.982
7.191
5.938
6.194
6.424
6.628
6.811
5.687
5.918
6.122
6.302
6.462
5.453
5.660
5.842
6.002
6.142
5.234
5.421
5.583
5.724
5.847
5.029
5.197
5.342
5.468
5.575
4.836
4.988
5.118
5.229
5.324
4.656
7.793
4.910
5.008
5.092
4.486
4.611
4.715
4.802
4.876
4.327
4.439
4.533
4.611
4.675
16
17
18
19
20
7.379
7.549
7.702
7.839
7.963
6.974
7.120
7.250
7.366
7.469
6.604
6.729
6.840
6.938
7.025
6.265
6.373
6.467
6.550
6.623
5.954
6.047
6.128
6.198
6.259
5.668
5.749
5.818
5.877
5.929
5.405
5.475
5.534
5.584
5.628
5.162
5.222
5.273
5.316
5.353
4.938
4.990
5.033
5.070
5.101
4.730
4.775
4.812
4.843
4.870
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FORMULAE
PROBABILITY
A B = A or B.
A B = A and B (overlap).
P(B | A) = probability of B, given A.
Rules of Addition
If A and B are mutually exclusive:
If A and B are not mutually exclusive:
Rules of Multiplication
If A and B are independent:
If A and B are not independent:
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Arithmetic Mean
x =
x
n
x=
fx
f
(frequency distribution)
Standard Deviation
SD =
( x x ) 2
n
SD =
fx 2
x 2 (frequency distribution)
f
INDEX NUMBERS
Price relative = 100 * P1/P0
Price:
Quantity:
P
w 1
Po
w
x 100
Q
w 1
Qo x 100
w
TIME SERIES
Additive Model
Series = Trend + Seasonal + Random
Multiplicative Model
Series = Trend * Seasonal * Random
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FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS
Compound Interest (Values and Sums)
Future Value S, of a sum of X, invested for n periods, compounded at r% interest
n
S = X[1 + r]
Annuity
Present value of an annuity of 1 per annum receivable or payable for n years, commencing in one
year, discounted at r% per annum:
PV =
1
1
1
r [1 + r ] n
Perpetuity
Present value of 1 per annum, payable or receivable in perpetuity, commencing in one year,
discounted at r% per annum:
PV =
1
r
LEARNING CURVE
b
Yx = aX
where:
Yx = the cumulative average time per unit to produce X units;
a = the time required to produce the first unit of output;
X = the cumulative number of units;
b = the index of learning.
The exponent b is defined as the log of the learning curve improvement rate divided by log 2.
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Economic Order Quantity
2C o D
EOQ =
Ch
where:
Co
Ch
D
=
=
=
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Level 2 - COMPREHENSION
What you are expected to understand.
VERBS USED
DEFINITION
List
State
Define
Make a list of
Express, fully or clearly, the details/facts of
Give the exact meaning of
Describe
Distinguish
Explain
Identify
Illustrate
Level 3 - APPLICATION
How you are expected to apply your knowledge.
Apply
Calculate
Demonstrate
Prepare
Reconcile
Solve
Tabulate
Level 4 - ANALYSIS
How are you expected to analyse the detail of
what you have learned.
Level 5 - EVALUATION
How are you expected to use your learning to
evaluate, make decisions or recommendations.
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Analyse
Categorise
Compare and contrast
Construct
Discuss
Interpret
Prioritise
Produce
Advise
Evaluate
Recommend
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