1. [单选题]24 What figure should appear in the consolidated balance sheet of the J group as at 31 December 2004 for minority
interest?
A. $32,000
B. $16,000
C. $10,000
D. $24,000
2. [单选题]A corporate taxpayer has under-reported its taxable revenue in 2002 and hence underpaid value added tax (VAT) and enterprise income tax (EIT). In 2014, the taxpayer was charged by the tax authority with committing an act of tax evasion in 2002.
A. Which of the following statements is correct?
B. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes due, plus a late payment surcharge and a penalty
C. There is no need for the taxpayer to pay any additional taxes, late payment surcharge or penalty as the statute of limitation is ten years
D. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes, but no late payment surcharge or penalty as the statute of limitation is ten years for late payment surcharge and penalties
E. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes and a late payment surcharge but not a penalty as the statute of limitation is five years for penalties
3. [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
4. [单选题]Which of the following statements relating to internal and external auditors is correct?
A. Internal auditors are required to be members of a professional body
B. Internal auditors’ scope of work should be determined by those charged with governance
C. External auditors report to those charged with governance
D. Internal auditors can never be independent of the company
5. [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
6. [单选题]Hindberg is a car retailer. On 1 April 2014, Hindberg sold a car to Latterly on the following terms:
A. Latterly paid $12,650 (half of the cost) on 1 April 2014 and would pay the remaining $12,650 on 31 March 2016 (two years after the sale). Hindberg’s cost of capital is 10% per annum.
B. What is the total amount which Hindberg should credit to profit or loss in respect of this transaction in the year ended 31 March 2015?
C. $23,105
D. $23,000
E. $20,909
F. $24,150
7. [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
8. [单选题]A company predicted that the learning rate for production of a new product would be 80%. The actual learning rate was 75%. The following possible reasons were stated for this:
A. (i) The number of new employees recruited was lower than expected
B. (ii) Unexpected problems were encountered with production
C. (iii) Unexpected changes to Health and Safety laws meant that the company had to increase the number of breaks during production for employees
D. Which of the above reasons could have caused the difference between the expected rate of learning and the actual rate of learning?
E. All of the above
F. (ii) and (iii) only
G. (i) only
H. None of the above
9. [单选题]Mr Li, a photographer, had his photos published in the July 2014 edition of the tourism journal. The total fee was RMB20,000 and the publisher agreed to pay Mr Li by two instalments, one of RMB18,000 in June 2014 and the balance of RMB2,000 in August 2014. The same photos were republished by the government in a promotion brochure in August 2014 and Mr Li was paid a further fee of RMB3,000 by the government.
A. What is the total amount of individual income tax (IIT) which Mr Li will pay on the above incomes?
B. RMB2,492
C. RMB2,576
D. RMB2,548
E. RMB3,680
10. [单选题]19 What is the company’s return on shareholders’ equity?
A. 15/40 = 37·5%
B. 20/100 = 20%
C. 15/100 = 15%
D. 20/150 = 13·3%
