IT Certification Exam Questions & Answers

QUESTION 33
COSO’s Internal Control-Integrated Framework is the widely accepted internal control framework in the U S Five major Internal control components are Included in this framework Control environment consists of

QUESTION 34
Sportsman inc. manufactures ceramic sports-related figurines. The company’s oldest lines are mass produced in a standard variety of colors and designs. A few years ago in an effort to increase sales, the company began accepting special orders with modified designs in school colors. The minimum order for these special designs is 100 units. The special orders have become very popular and now represent one quarter of the units produced. Estimates for the year follow.

Design costs manufacturing overhead and materials handling costs are budgeted at $700.000 for the year Sportsman has always used a traditional cost allocation system using aired labor hours as the allocation base but is considering an activity based costing system. The most likely result of changing to an activity-based system is that

QUESTION 35
Two examples or measures that could appear in the Learning and Growth section of a balanced scorecard are

QUESTION 36
Grayson Inc. experienced the following costs per unit this year for one of the direct materials involved in producing its main product
3.1 pounds @ $4 20 per pound = $13.02 per finished unit
For the next year. Grayson expects to produce 7.400 finished units. The price per pound of the direct material is expected to rise 10%. To combat this increase. Grayson has adapted its manufacturing process to reduce the amount of the direct material needed per finished unit by 5% What is the direct materials budget for the next year?

QUESTION 37
Comprehensive income is best defined as

QUESTION 38
A company had 100.000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding at January 1. During the year, the company took the following actions:

QUESTION 39
Faxton and Rexford are competitor in the same industry Faxton utilizes an incentive program mat focuses solely on net income Rexford uses customer service and employee development in addition to net income in its incentive program. Over time. Faxton can be expected to

QUESTION 40
What is ZF’s expected variable overhead cost per pound of food produced? Snow your calculations Essay Zhiliang Foods Inc. (ZFI) is a privately-held food distributor ZFI has two production departments’ the Meat Department is labor-intensive. while the Bakery Department is highly automated ZFI applies a single overhead allocation rate, using the number of pounds produced as an allocation base for the whole company The expected annual overhead costs of ZFI for 100 million pounds produced are as follows (¥ in millions).

ZFI has one payroll administrator in its Human Resources department, but most of the payroll related work is outsourced to a payroll service provider ZFI’s payroll administrator is responsible for tracking the list of current employees and maintaining the most up-to-date employee information, including bank accounts for payroll direct deposits.
Each pay period, the payroll administrator emails the information for all current employees’ hours worked to the payroll service provider. The service provider then processes the payroll, makes direct deposits to employees’ bank accounts, mails payroll stubs to employees’ homes and emails payroll reports to ZFI’s payroll administrator. The payroll administrator then makes payroll journal entries to ZFI’s accounting system based on the payroll reports received ZFI’s accountant prepares a bank reconciliation each month to ensure ZFI s payroll payments on ZFI’s bank statement match the amounts shown on the payroll reports from the service provider.
ZFl’s management is evaluating the purchase of data encryption software and human resources management software next year. The human resource management software is expected to provide various human resources and payroll-related functions.
In addition, the human resource software can generate a report to indicate the monthly employee turnover rate and the average service length of employees who have resigned. The system can also generate a report to indicate the main reasons for resignations and identify current employees who are at risk of resigning. The system will recommend actions to help retain these employees, such as more training opportunities or a pay raise.

QUESTION 41
Hill Corporation sola some of its accounts receivable including one from Custom Company, to Dale incorporated without recourse, Because of this transaction.

QUESTION 42
The best way to illustrate the entire distribution of numerical data for a single variable is with a

QUESTION 43
Explain the difference between the ROI method and the Rl method in performance evaluation 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).

QUESTION 44
Which one of the following is the least important for a successful budget process?

QUESTION 45
Throughout June. Carroll Company purchased 75,000 pounds of raw materials at a cost of $303,750 and used
60 000 pounds of these purchases in production Carroll’s standards indicated that each unit of finished goods requires three pounds of material at a cost of $4 per pound Although Carroll had budgeted for 22,000 units of finished goods to be produced during June, only 19,800 units were actually made. The raw material price variance for June that would be most relevant when examining deviations from standard is

QUESTION 46
As part of the COSO Internal Control Framework segregation of duties and documentation are included in which of the components of the COSO model below?

QUESTION 47
A company’s controller is preparing to allocate service department costs. The controller would like to use a cost allocation method that would be most accurate. The method the controller would most likely use is the

QUESTION 48
Which one of the following is not considered to be a Benefit of participative budgeting?

QUESTION 49
A fitness company produces workout video content and snares it online. The company has subscribers all over the world and its subscriber base has shown steady growth Management has approached a popular workout apparel company to discuss potential sponsorship opportunities. The goal is to impress the potential sponsor by showing the growth in total subscribers over the last 12 months. All of the following would be appropriate options for visualizing this data except a

QUESTION 50
A company has the following accounts included in its trial balance as of December 31

What amount of equity will be reported on me company’s balance sheet as of December 31?

QUESTION 51
Return on investment (ROI) is a performance measure that requires managers to respond to several factors that are under their Influence or control Decisions Intended to influence ROI are often from a short-term perspective and may conflict with the long-term objectives of the organization. This lack of goal congruence can be minimized by

QUESTION 52
Which one of the following statements best describes data governance?

QUESTION 53
Lewis Farms inc, is a large grower of vegetables in Northern California. During a year in which there is no drought the firm earns S3 million from its produce In a year with a partial drought, earnings are $1 million and if there is a severe drought, the firm has zero earnings Based on many years of weather data, in 50% of the years there was no drought in 30% of the years there was a partial drought, and a severe drought occurred 20% of the time. Lewis Farms has an opportunity to purchase an insurance policy that would pay Lewis $2 million in the event of a severe drought $1 million in the case of a partial drought, and nothing in the event there is no drought ignoring taxes, the maximum premium that Lewis would be willing to pay for the policy is