IMA CMA Part 1: Financial Planning - Performance and Analytics Sample Questions:

1. A company has prepared the following pro forma income statements. It plans to sell 10,000 units in the current year and 11.500 units next year.

A) Reduce operating expenses by $1.00 per unit
B) Reduce cost of goods sold by $1.00 per unit
C) Increase sales revenue by 15%.
D) Increase gross profit margin by 15%

2. Company A currently uses U.S GAAP while Company 8 is currently using IFRS. Both companies are individually in the process of internally developing trademarks that have been demonstrated to be technically and economically feasible Both companies have incurred development costs in the current year with respect to their internally developed trademarks. Which one of the following best describes how Company A and Company B should account for these development costs in their financial statements?

A) Both Company A and Company B should capitalize the development costs
B) Company A should capitalize the development costs while Company B should expense the development costs
C) Both Company A and Company B should expense the development costs
D) Company A should expense the development costs while Company B should capitalize the development costs

3. Identify one external factor that provides opportunity for the Food-To-Go division.
Essay
Food Depot Ltd (FDD is a privately-held company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant chains including fast food, casual dining, and fine dining restaurants FDL has been profitable m recent years and has a very strong cash position FDL's newest division. Food-To-Go. is an online meal ordering and delivery platform acquired by FDL two years ago.
In 20X7. sales for the entire company were SI billion, with 50% of the business coming from the Airline Catering division. FDL is the country's leading airline catering services provider and controls 60% of the market share. However, the outlook of the airline catering industry is gloomy. The compound annual growth rate of the industry for the past five years was only 0.5% as airline networks have increasingly dropped catering on short domestic flights.
The Food-To-Go division only contributed 5% of FDL's total sales in 20X7 and is far behind in competing for market share of the online meal ordering and deliver, industry. It is estimated that Food-To-Go's sales were only 20% of the industry leader's sales However, the outlook for the online meal ordering and delivery services industry is bright. The compound annual growth rate of the industry since it started three years ago was 50%. It is estimated the rapid growth of the industry will continue in the foreseeable future.
The costs of shared corporate services are allocated based on each division s revenue FDL usually caps its capital expenditure budget to 4% of budgeted sales revenue In a recent capital budget coordination meeting.
Smith Whitney, the head of the Airline Catering division. complained that his division is underfunded on capital projects . The budgeted capital expenditure had been much less than 4 % of the division's budgeted sales in the past three years He argued that his division is the company's best-performing division, and it needs more funds to maintain its market share m the industry Whitney wants to reduce the capital expenditure budget for Food-To-Go and reallocate those funds to his division.
Susan Wiley, the bead of Food-To-Go, does not agree that the Airline Catering division is the best-performing division in the company Wiley argues that her division had the highest ROI in 20X7. and it deserves more capital funding FDL's required rate of return is 12%. The selected financial data for the Airline Catering division and Food-To-Go division in 20X7 are as follows (in $ millions).

4. Life-cycle costing is most effective when used with products that have a

A) long development period and many costs incurred during manufacturing
B) long development period and many costs incurred poor to manufacturing
C) short development period and few costs incurred poor to manufacturing
D) short development period and many costs Incurred during manufacturing

5. Which one of the following is not considered to be a Benefit of participative budgeting?

A) Managers are held responsible for reaching their goals and cannot shift responsibility by blaming the unrealistic goals demanded by the budget.
B) individuals at all organizational levels are recognized as being pan of the team resulting in greater support of the budget
C) Budget estimates are prepared by those in direct contact with various activities
D) When managers set the final targets for the budget, it reduces top management's concerns about the profitability of operations

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