CIMA Related Exams
P1 Exam

A bakery manager is deciding how many batches of birthday cakes to decorate each day.
Demand for the birthday cakes varies from 12 to 15 batches per day. Each batch decorated and sold earns a contribution of $40 but each batch unsold leads to loss of contribution of $15.
The payoff table below shows the total $ contribution from each of the possibilities:
Based on expected values, the number of batches of birthday cakes the bakery manager should decorate each day is:
A company manufactures a single product. The following budgeted data applies to month 6:
What was the budgeted fixed production overhead for month 6?
Give your answer to the nearest whole $ (in '000s).
TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers’ specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:
The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
What was the material price planning variance for ingredient B?