Costing MCQ Questions and Solutions with Explanations | Commerce

"Which of the following would explain an adverse variable production overhead efficiency variance?
1 Employees were of a lower skill level than specified in the standard
2 Unexpected idle time resulted from a series of machine breakdown
3 Poor Quality material was difficult to process"

Budgeted sales of X for March are 18000 units. At the end of the production process for X, 10% of production units are scrapped as defective. Opening inventories of X for March are budgeted to be 15000 units and closing inventories will be 11,400 units. All inventories of finished goods must have successfully passed the quality control check. The production budget for X for March, in units is:

CG Co manufactures a single product T. Budgeted production output of product T during June is 200 units. Each unit of product T requires 6 labour hours for completion and CG Co anticipates 20 per cent idle time. Labour is paid at a rate of Rs7 per hour. The direct labour cost budget for March is

A Local Authority is preparing cash Budget for its refuse disposal department. Which of the following items would not be included in the cash budget?

"BDL Ltd. is currently preparing its cash budget for the year to 31 March 20XX. An extract from its sales budget for the same year shows the following sales values.
Rs
March 60,000
April 70,000
May 55,000
June 65,000
40% of its sales are expected to be for cash. Of its credit sales, 70% are expected to pay in month after sale and take a 2% discount. 27% are expected to pay in the second month after the sale, and the remaining 3% are expected to be bad debts. The value of sales budget to be shown in the cash budget for May 20XX is"

The actual output of 162,500 units and actual fixed costs of Rs 87000 were exactly as budgeted. However, the actual expenditure of Rs 300,000 was Rs 18,000 over budget. What was the budget variable cost per unit?

"A ltd is a manufacturing company that has no production resource limitations for the foreseeable future. The Managing Director has asked the company mangers to coordinate the preparation of their budgets for the next financial year. In what order should the following budgets be prepared?
(1) Sales budget
(2) Cash budget
(3) Production budget
(4) Purchase budget
(5) Finished goods inventory budget"

"S produces and sells one product, P, for which the data are as follows:
Selling price Rs 28
Variable cost Rs 16
Fixed cost Rs 4
The fixed costs are based on a budgeted production and sales level of 25,000 units for the next period. Due to market changes both the selling price and the variable cost are expected to increase above the budgeted level in the next period. If the selling price and variable cost per unit increase by 10% and 8% respectively, by how much must sales volume change, compared with the original budgeted level, in order to achieve the original budgeted profit for the period?"

In process costing, a joint product is:

"Process B had no opening inventory. 13,500 units of raw material were transferred in at Rs 4.50 per unit. Additional material at Rs1.25per unit was added in process. Labour and overheads were Rs 6.25 per completed unit and Rs 2.50 per unit incomplete.
If 11,750completed units were transferred out, what was the closing inventory in Process B?"