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(e) Briefly provide five reasons to the management of Bailey’s why financial rewards could be considered to improve motivation. (5 marks)
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(iii) A firm of consultants has offered to undertake a study on behalf of Envico Ltd which will provide perfect
information regarding seminar attendance during the forthcoming year.
Advise the management of Envico Ltd with regard to the maximum amount that they should pay to
consultants for perfect information regarding seminar attendance and comment briefly on the use of
perfect information in such decisions. (5 marks)
The Hi Life Co (HL Co) makes sofas. It has recently received a request from a customer to provide a one-off order of sofas, in excess of normal budgeted production. The order would need to be completed within two weeks. The following cost estimate has already been prepared:
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1 The fabric is regularly used by HL Co. There are currently 300 m2 in inventory, which cost $17 per m2. The current purchase price of the fabric is $17·50 per m2.
2 This type of wood is regularly used by HL Co and usually costs $8·20 per m2. However, the company’s current supplier’s earliest delivery time for the wood is in three weeks’ time. An alternative supplier could deliver immediately but they would charge $8·50 per m2. HL Co already has 500 m2 in inventory but 480 m2 of this is needed to complete other existing orders in the next two weeks. The remaining 20 m2 is not going to be needed until four weeks’ time.
3 The skilled labour force is employed under permanent contracts of employment under which they must be paid for 40 hours’ per week’s labour, even if their time is idle due to absence of orders. Their rate of pay is $16 per hour, although any overtime is paid at time and a half. In the next two weeks, there is spare capacity of 150 labour hours.
4 There is no spare capacity for semi-skilled workers. They are currently paid $12 per hour or time and a half for overtime. However, a local agency can provide additional semi-skilled workers for $14 per hour.
5 The $3 absorption rate is HL Co’s standard factory overhead absorption rate; $1·50 per hour reflects the cost of the factory supervisor’s salary and the other $1·50 per hour reflects general factory costs. The supervisor is paid an annual salary and is also paid $15 per hour for any overtime he works. He will need to work 20 hours’ overtime if this order is accepted.
6 This is an apportionment of the general administration overheads incurred by HL Co. Required: Prepare, on a relevant cost basis, the lowest cost estimate which could be used as the basis for the quotation. Explain briefly your reasons for including or excluding each of the costs in your estimate.
Required:
Prepare, on a relevant cost basis, the lowest cost estimate which could be used as the basis for the quotation. Explain briefly your reasons for including or excluding each of the costs in your estimate.
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Section B – ALL FIVE questions are compulsory and MUST be attempted
The Chemical Free Clean Co (C Co) provides a range of environmentally-friendly cleaning services to business customers, often providing a specific service to meet a client’s needs. Its customers range from large offices and factories to specialist care wards at hospitals, where specialist cleaning equipment must be used and regulations adhered to. C Co offers both regular cleaning contracts and contracts for one-off jobs. For example, its latest client was a chain of restaurants which employed them to provide an extensive clean of all their business premises after an outbreak of food poisoning.
The cleaning market is very competitive, although there are only a small number of companies providing a chemical free service. C Co has always used cost-plus pricing to determine the prices which it charges to its customers but recently, the cost of the cleaning products C Co uses has increased. This has meant that C Co has had to increase its prices, resulting in the loss of several regular customers to competing service providers.
The finance director at C Co has heard about target costing and is considering whether it could be useful at C Co.
Required:
(a) Briefly describe the main steps involved in deriving a target cost. (3 marks)
(b) Explain any difficulties which may be encountered and any benefits which may arise when implementing target costing at C Co. (7 marks)
(e) Briefly discuss FOUR initiatives that management might consider in order to further enhance profitability.
(4 marks)
(c) Briefly describe three advantages to Bailey’s of counselling. (3 marks)
(b) Briefly explain the two types of informal communication known as the grapevine and rumour. (6 marks)
(b) Briefly describe the five extreme scores identified by Blake and Mouton. (5 marks)
(b) Briefly explain THREE limitations of negotiated transfer prices. (3 marks)
(b) Briefly describe the way in which a ‘person specification’ differs from a ‘job description’. (3 marks)
(ii) Briefly discuss THREE disadvantages of using EVA？ in the measurement of financial performance.
(3 marks)
