1. [单选题]25 What should the minority interest figure be in the group’s consolidated balance sheet at 31 December 2005?
A. $240,000
B. $80,000
C. $180,000
D. $140,000
2. [单选题]The following statements have been made about life cycle costing:
A. (i) It focuses on the short-term by identifying costs at the beginning of a product’s life cycle
B. (ii) It identifies all costs which arise in relation to the product each year and then calculates the product’s profitability on an annual basis
C. (iii) It accumulates a product’s costs over its whole life time and works out the overall profitability of a product
D. (iv) It allocates costs to each stage of a product’s life cycle and writes them off at the end of each stage
E. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
F. (i) and (iii)
G. (iii) only
H. (i) and (iv)
I. (ii) only
3. [单选题]17 A business income statement for the year ended 31 December 2004 showed a net profit of $83,600. It was later
found that $18,000 paid for the purchase of a motor van had been debited to motor expenses account. It is the company’s policy to depreciate motor vans at 25 per cent per year, with a full year’s charge in the year of acquisition. What would the net profit be after adjusting for this error?
A. $106,100
B. $70,100
C. $97,100
D. $101,600
4. [单选题]18 Which of the following statements about accounting ratios and their interpretation are correct?
1 A low-geared company is more able to survive a downturn in profit than a highly-geared company. 2 If a company has a high price earnings ratio, this will often indicate that the market expects its profits to rise. 3 All companies should try to achieve a current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) of 2:1.
A. 2 and 3 only
B. 1 and 3 only
C. 1 and 2 only
D. All three statements are correct
5. [单选题]Is the following statement true or false?
B. True
C. False
6. [单选题]19 At 30 June 2004 a company’s allowance for receivables was $39,000. At 30 June 2005 trade receivables totalled $517,000. It was decided to write off debts totalling $37,000 and to adjust the allowance for receivables to the equivalent of 5 per cent of the trade receivables based on past events.
What figure should appear in the income statement for these items?
A. $61,000
B. $22,000
C. $24,000
D. $23,850
7. [单选题]The following information is available for a manufacturing company which produces multiple products:
A. (i) The product mix ratio
B. (ii) Contribution to sales ratio for each product
C. (iii) General fixed costs
D. (iv) Method of apportioning general fixed costs
E. Which of the above are required in order to calculate the break-even sales revenue for the company?
F. All of the above
G. (i), (ii) and (iii) only
H. (i), (iii) and (iv) only
I. (ii) and (iii) only
8. [单选题]In 2014 Mr Yuan inherited an estate of RMB2 million from his uncle who had died two months earlier.
A. What is the correct treatment of the estate income for individual income tax purposes?
B. The estate income is not taxable
C. The estate income will be taxed as occasional (ad hoc) income
D. The estate income will be taxed as other income
E. The estate income will be taxed as service income
9. [单选题]10 What would the company’s profit become after the correction of the above errors?
A. $634,760
B. $624,760
C. $624,440
D. $625,240
10. [单选题]C Co uses material B, which has a current market price of $0·80 per kg. In a linear program, where the objective is to maximise profit, the shadow price of material B is $2 per kg. The following statements have been made:
A. (i) Contribution will be increased by $2 for each additional kg of material B purchased at the current market price
B. (ii) The maximum price which should be paid for an additional kg of material B is $2
C. (iii) Contribution will be increased by $1·20 for each additional kg of material B purchased at the current market price
D. (iv) The maximum price which should be paid for an additional kg of material B is $2·80
E. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
F. (ii) only
G. (ii) and (iii)
H. (i) only
I. (i) and (iv)
