A healthcare company specializes in hip, knee and shoulder replacement operations, known as surgical procedures. As well as providing these surgical procedures the company offers pre operation and post operation in-patient care, in a fully equipped hospital, for those patients who will be undergoing the surgical procedures.
Surgeons are paid a fixed fee for each surgical procedure they perform and an additional amount for any follow-up consultations. Post procedure follow-up consultations are only undertaken if there are any complications in relation to the surgical procedure. There is no additional fee charged to patients for any follow up consultations. All other staff are paid annual salaries.
The company's existing costing system uses a single overhead rate, based on revenue, to charge the costs of support activities to the procedures. Concern has been raised about the inaccuracy of procedure costs and the company's accountant has initiated a project to implement an activity-based costing (ABC) system. The project team has collected the following data on each of the procedures.

Calculate the profit per procedure for each of the three procedures using activity-based costing.
What was the profit for the knee procedure, using ABC costing?

• A. $781
• B. $2466
• C. $2305
• D. $1808

A company is preparing its annual budget and is estimating the number of units of Product W that it will sell in each quarter of year 2. Past experience has shown that the trend for sales of the product is represented by the following relationship:

Calculate the expected unit sales of Product W for each quarter of year 2, after adjusting for seasonal variations using the multiplicative model.

• A. The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 22,600 units
• B. The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 25,100 units
• C. The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 35,100 units
• D. The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 38,100 units

A company's management is considering investing in a project with an expected life of 4 years. It has a positive net present value of $180,000 when cash flows are discounted at 8% per annum. The project's cash flows include a cash outflow of $100,000 for each of the four years. No tax is payable on projects of this type.
The percentage increase in the annual cash outflow that would cause the company's management to reject the project from a financial perspective is, to the nearest 0.1%:

• A. 45.0%
• B. 54.3%
• C. 55,6%
• D. 184.0%

LM operates a parcel delivery service. Last year its employees delivered 15,120 parcels and travelled 120,960 kilometers. Total costs were $194,400.
LM has estimated that 70% of its total costs are variable with activity and that 60% of these costs vary with the number of parcels and the remainder vary with the distance travelled.
LM is preparing its budget for the forthcoming year using an incremental budgeting approach and has produced the following estimates:
* All costs will be 3% higher than the previous year due to inflation
* Efficiency will remain unchanged
* A total of 18,360 parcels will be delivered and 128,800 kilometers will be travelled.
Calculate the following costs to be included in the forthcoming year's budget:
(i) the total variable costs related to the number of parcels delivered.
(ii) the total variable costs related to the distance travelled.

• A. Parcel related cost for next year = $112,118; Distance related costs for next year = $59,699
• B. Parcel related cost for next year = $109,118; Distance related costs for next year = $89,699
• C. Parcel related cost for next year = $115,306; Distance related costs for next year = $31,590
• D. Parcel related cost for next year = $112,308; Distance related costs for next year = $79,590
• E. Parcel related cost for next year = $105,306; Distance related costs for next year = $30,590

Explain why sensitivity analysis is useful when dealing with uncertainty in project appraisal.
Select all the true statements.

• A. In project appraisal, in analysis can be made of all the key variables to ascertain by how much each variable would need to change before the net present value (NPV) reaches 100% i.e. the maximum point.
• B. Sensitivity analysis enables a company to determine the effect of changes to variables on the planned outcome
• C. In project appraisal, an analysis can be made if all the key variables to ascertain by how much variable would need to change before the net present value (NPV) reaches zero i.e. the indifference point.
• D. Sensitivity analysis enables a company to determine the effect of changes to fixed costs on the planned outcome