Saylor Managerial Accounting BUS105 Exam Questions

SJ Candles is performing a cost-volume-profit analysis to prepare for year 2. Fixed costs are expected to remain the same as year 1, but variable costs per unit are expected to increase by 10%. They plan to keep the same sales price but want to know what level of sales must be achieved in year 2 to maintain the same operating profit.

Diamonds and More produced a new line of necklaces that sell for $350 each. Management requires a profit equal to 40 percent of the selling price. What is the target cost of this product?

Ladron Candies is analyzing sales and production data for the holiday boxes they produced last year. The company expected to use 2 pounds of direct materials to produce one box of specialty candy at a cost of $3.00 per pound. Invoices show the company purchased 1,650,000 pounds of direct materials at $2.90 per pound and used 1,580,000 pounds in production. They sold 800,000 boxes of candy to retailers. What is the materials quantity variance?

Which of the following employees of ABC Corporation is most likely to receive the report regarding the internal audit committee's control findings?

Wycliff Corporation manufactures several different styles of bicycles. Managers appropriately record direct materials and direct labor into work-in-process accounts during production. To apply manufacturing overhead, managers consider cost pools for assembly and shipping to calculate a predetermined overhead rate for each department. Which of the following best describes the method used by Wycliff Corporation for allocating manufacturing overhead costs?

Ladron Candies is analyzing sales and production data for the holiday boxes they produced last year. The company expected to use 0.10 direct labor hours to produce one box of specialty candy, and the variable overhead rate was $2.00 per hour. According to payroll records, the company paid for a total of 104,000 hours of direct labor wages. The actual variable overhead costs totaled $200,000. They sold 800,000 boxes of candy to retailers. What is the variable overhead efficiency variance?

Myer Inc. achieved their goal of reducing their employee turnover rate by 15%. Which of the following perspectives of their balanced scorecard is most likely to include this measure?