EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Company directors who exercise executive share options generally resell the shares immediately, rather than holding them Which of the following best explains this behavior?

Question2: TYU is a retailer selling televisions. The company is financed wholly by equity.
Why might TYU be exposed to interest rate risk?

Question3: HWG is a large company which grows and processes coffee The coffee is sold to supermarkets, branded with their names for sale as "own brand" products HWG brands and packages the coffee using the supermarkets' own designs HWG's directors are considering a strategic proposal to develop a range of coffees to be sold under a brand that HWG will develop Which TWO of the following should the directors consider as part of their strategic analysis?

Question4: Select the correct ethical principle that corresponds to each ethical dilemma described.

Question5: A publicly funded hospital has put various features in place in an attempt to improve strategic control and create an improved control environment.
Which TWO of the following features are most likely to meet this objective?

Question6: TLY sell building materials such as bricks sacks of concrete and paving slabs to builders Materials are kept in a large yard Customer orders are fulfilled by a team of 30 employees who use forklift trucks to move sold items to the loading bay, from where they are loaded onto lornes for dispatch to the customer The sales office prepares dispatch notes, which are used by the yard employees to identify the items that have been ordered Which TWO of the following controls would be cost-effective ways to prevent the theft of inventory by TLY's staff?

Question7: A US company has to pay £500,000 for a new machine.
You have the following information on currencies.
EUR 1 = £1.2300
EUR 1 = USD 1.6200
What is the cost of the machine in USD?
Give your answer to the nearest $.

Question8: GHY is a listed company. Tom is GHY's CEO and Peter is its non-executive Chair of the Board. Tom and Peter both have substantial relevant business and industrial experience and both are believed to have considerable integrity. Tom and Peter quickly developed a good working relationship after Peter's appointment. They have become close friends.
Tom briefs Peter on every aspect of the business. Tom and Peter jointly agree the agenda for every board meeting and both agree on the manner in which matters will be presented to the board.
Taking account of the principles of good corporate governance, which of the following statements is correct?

Question9: Smalltown had a problem with people parking cars on the town's mam shopping streets instead of in the nearby car parks The parked cars created congestion and made it difficult for delivery vehicles to unload Smalltown's local government had employed traffic wardens to enforce parking regulations by issuing parking fines to motorists who parked for more than the permitted 30 minutes.
The local government took further action to deal with this problem It banned parking on the busiest streets, it introduced parking charges in the remaining streets and it made it free to park m the town's car parks for up to two hours Fewer people now park cars on the streets because of the charges, but those who do generate significant revenues for the local government Fewer traffic wardens are required and so wage costs have reduced The local goverment auditors have decided to carry out a value for money audit of the parking system Which of the following is a measure of effectiveness?

Question10: Which of the following are objectives of the audit planning procedure?

Question11: University B has several departments. Each department at times obtains funding from different sources such as government grants and industry sponsorships. The central management of the university has decided to develop a module within its current Information System to track these funds centrally.
The central management of the University has decided to utilise in-house expertise in order to build this module.
Which THREE of the following represent advantages of developing this module and doing so using in-house expertise?

Question12: Having carried out a full capital appraisal for a construction project, H Company has approved the project with initial outflows of $6,000,000 and a net present value of $1,200,000.
The implementation phase has been commenced with 25% of the costs already committed. However when the ground was opened, an underground waterway was revealed which will need to be diverted if the project is to proceed. Work to carry out this diversion has been estimated at $1,300,000.
Which of the following factors will define whether the project should go ahead or not?

Question13: Which of the following best describes the conflict between maximising profit and maximising shareholder wealth?

Question14: FGT is evaluating the political risks associated with its operations around the world.
Which of the following would indicate that a particular subsidiary has a high level of political risk?

Question15: M, a manufacturing company, has had some problems with defects in one of the main products it produces.
This product has been made by the company for many years and is very profitable. Last month it had over 300 defects reported by customers which is more than 15% of products sold. This is a reputation risk for M and is also affecting profitability.
Which of the following controls could M introduce to reduce defects and also increase profitability?

Question16: Which of the following actions would breach CIMA's Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants?

Question17: A US company enters into a five year borrowing with bank A at a floating rate of USD Libor plus 2%.
It simultaneously enters into an interest rate swap with bank B at 3.5% fixed against USD Libor plus 1%.
What is the hedged borrowing rate, taking the borrowing and swap into account?
Give your answer to 1 decimal place

Question18: COM is a well established company in the construction industry The company was founded by the Mac family
30 years ago and several family members still serve on the Board The company obtained a listing five years ago The Board has an appropriate balance between executive and non-executive members It also has audit remuneration and nomination committees The average age of board members is 68 COM is profitable but profit margins have been falling steadily and this year's revenues are lower than it was achieved last year The Board recognis thai it does not have a long term strategy in place and has been losing business to newer, more aggressive competitors Which THREE of the following statements are correct?

Question19: RFG is considering a major expansion that will result in a more diversified business model.
At present, RFG's market capitalisation is $240 million. This is based on a beta of 1.6. The risk free rate is 4% and the market rate of return is 9%. RFG is financed entirely by equity. The company generates an annual cash surplus of $28.8 million.
The expansion will cost $50 million and will generate future cash flows of $12 million in perpetuity. This new business will reduce RFG's beta to 1.4.
Calculate the adjusted present value of the expansion.

Question20: Which of the following represents the greatest risk associated with introducing a system of post-completion audit for investment projects?

Question21: Company M has lost 25% of its revenue in the last three months due to bad debts. One of the receivables written off was from a long standing customer and the other three were from new customers. The management accountant has warned the sales team that the company cannot survive any more substantial bad debts.
Which of the following internal controls should be put in place to try and prevent further bad debts?

Question22: VBN's home currency is the V$. On 1 January, VBN must make a payment of C$2 million on 31 March of that same year.
On 1 January the spot exchange rate was V$1 = C$0.4.
On 1 January VBN paid $180,000 for a call option to buy C$2 million for V$5.5 million on 31 March. VBN's cost of borrowing was 8% per year.
On 31 March the spot rate was V$1 = C$0.45.
What was the total cost, including the cost of the option, of settling the payable?

Question23: The safety guard on a piece of equipment was broken. The factory manager suspended an operator who refused to operate the equipment until it was repaired. The factory manager paid another operator a bonus for operating the damaged equipment until the safety guard could be repaired.
What does this incident say about the control environment within that factory?

Question24: H has a floating rate loan that it wishes to replace with a fixed rate. The cost of the existing loan is LIBOR +
4%. H would have to pay a fixed rate of 8% on a fixed rate loan. H's bank has found a potential counterparty for a swap arrangement.
The counterparty wishes to raise a variable rate loan. It would pay LIBOR + 1% on a variable rate loan and
9% on a fixed rate.
The bank will require 10% of the savings from the swap and H and the counterparty will share the remaining saving equally.
Calculate H's effective rate of interest from this swap arrangement.

Question25: With regard to the internal audit department, which TWO of the following statements are correct?

Question26: The internal audit department should always give a report at the end of its audit. This report is intended to be useful and help the company going forward. The report should always include any recommendations for improvements. Which of the following statements are true and which are false?

Question27: T has its computer facilities in a building adjacent to its headquarters Severe structural problems have been discovered with this building and T has been advised that the only option is demolition and rebuild This leaves T with strategic decisions to make about its IT provision and it has decided to investigate the outsourcing of its services Which TWO of the following factors should T consider as most important at this stage?

Question28: Which TWO of the following are NOT methods used for risk identification?

Question29: Why do businesses take risks?
Select the TWO correct answers.

Question30: YUI owns 18 factories, which are spread around the country. Each factory employs 500-700 production staff and has its own administrative and accounts departments.
It has recently been discovered that the manager in charge of YUI's Hightown factory has been overstating his personal expenses claims for the past five years. The total amount stolen in this manner has been estimated at
$10,000.
Why would it have been relatively difficult to have prevented this fraud?

Question31: An electricity company owns and operates a nuclear power station located ten miles from a large city. A recent and very extensive engineering examination of the power station concludes with the estimate that the probability of a major nuclear disaster within the next 20 years is 0.2%.
Which of the following best explains the relevance of quantifying the risk in that way?

Question32: The treasurer of IOK is considering entering into a money market hedge in order to hedge a payable.
Which of the following might be valid explanations for the use of a money market hedge for this purpose?

Question33: Select the most appropriate level of responsibility for managing each of the following risks.

Question34: You have just been appointed Financial Controller of Y, a marketing consultancy.
You are in a meeting with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Y, and have been discussing the need for a major upgrade of all the information systems throughout Y, as they are all very old.
Knowing that major change should be managed effectively, you have suggested that Y should have a 'systems steering committee'.
Advise the CEO which of the following should be included in the terms of reference of the steering committee.

Question35: The internal audit department has just completed an investigation into the HR department's procedures relating to new staff appointments The head of HR is unhappy with the draft report prepared by the lead internal auditor The report lists several cases in which appointments were made despite the fact that one or more of the entity's formal procedures were not followed The head of HR has complained that the internal auditor's comments do not allow for the fact that the HR department's staff members are often very busy and do not always have time to conduct every check.
The internal auditor's comments also reflect a failure to complete documents None of the omissions have led to the appointment of an unsuitable member of staff Which TWO of the following statements reflect an appropriate response by the board of directors to this report?

Question36: Will owns $400,000 of shares in Company X.
Company X has a daily volatility of 1% of its share price.
Calculate the 28 day value at risk that shows the most Will can expect to lose during a 28 day period.
(Will wishes to be 90% certain that the actual loss in any month will be less than your predicted figure).
Give your answer to the nearest $000.

Question37: The list below has duties performed by risk managers and internal auditors. Show who would carry out the duties assuming the company has both risk managers and internal auditors.

Question38: Achieving the budget is often used as a good performance measure. However, there are problems with budgets which may mean they are not always good measures of performance.
Which TWO of the following statements about budgets suggest that they should not always be used to measure performance?

Question39: DRF is a manufacturing company
The internal auditor is conducting an investigation into the operation of the payroll system and has discovered a compliance error The Head of Human Resources (HR) is required to add any new names to the payroll, using a specific computer password The Head of HR was absent for a month because of ill health During that period a senior member of the Wages Office, who is normally responsible only for organising wage payments, was issued a temporary password in order to add new names to the payroll The password was cancelled when the Head of HR returned to work Which TWO of the following statements are correct?

Question40: Which risks should be given the highest priority?

Question41: You are the Management Accountant for a company which supplies baked food to a string of retail outlets; biscuits, cakes, savoury snacks etc.
You discover that a trainee employee, who is responsible for cleaning out the delivery vans has been taking damaged goods and packets which have reached their sales expiry date and has been selling them to friends.
These products would otherwise have been discarded as waste.
The trainee in question is the nephew of one of the senior managers.
What is the correct course of action?

Question42: A project has been evaluated on the basis that it will cost $22 million and will have a net present value of $4.3 million The project has commenced and $5 million of the $22 million has been invested. A problem has been discovered that will cost an additional $4.5 million to rectify. The $4.5 million will be payable immediately.
What is the NPV of continuing with this project?

Question43: N, a large company in the food production industry, has grown over the years by the acquisition of several smaller rivals. The company has ten branches located in its home country and has just opened a foreign branch for the first time. It has recently made some changes to the structure and implementation of its control system.
Which TWO of these would be most likely to improve the overall control system?

Question44: P Ltd manufactures and sells electrical goods through retail outlets.
N is P Ltd's Sales Director. He has been recently promoted from a senior sales position with P Ltd. He has been forced to spend the first six months as Sales Director on dealing with an administrative mess left behind by the previous sales director.
You are a Senior Management Accountant at P Ltd. You have worked with N for many years.
N has worked hard and has made many changes that have brought significant benefit to the business.
N has asked you to postpone the recording of some purchase invoices so that he will meet his quarterly targets on profit margin.
What should you do?

Question45: James owns a small company which sometimes suffers from credit risk.
Which of the following measures should he put in place to help reduce this risk?

Question46: B is a horticultural retailer with limited funds available to acquire new retail property.
B's Finance Manager has analysed two potential property investments. Investing in property P shows an IRR of 21% while the IRR on property Q is 17%.
The Finance Manager has also advised that the NPV for property P is $750K, while the NPV of property Q is
$850K.
The Board needs to choose between the two properties as it has insufficient funds for both. Based purely on the Finance Manager's analysis, which of the following is true?

Question47: A large, publicly funded university is considering introducing a new information system in order to enhance its ability to store and retrieve academic records for past and current students, including the registration and deregistration of students.
In conducting an evaluation of the system, which THREE features would the management of the college be most likely to consider as essential prerequisites to implementation?

Question48: D is a large oil refinery.
The managers have identified four risks shown in the risk map below:
Which of the risk mitigations listed below would be the best for dealing with the two risks classified as medium likelihood and high impact?

Question49: A capital investment project shows a NPV of £3,450 at a discounted rate of 8% and an NPV of £1,210 at a discounted rate of 9%.
What is the internal rate of return?

Question50: P Ltd, a manufacturing company, is considering a new capital investment project to set up a new production line. The initial appraisal shows a healthy net present value of $6,465 million at a discount rate of 10% as shown in the table below:
However, management is unsure about the demand for the product which will be produced and has insisted that the future revenues should be reduced to certainity equivalents by taking 70%, 65% and 60% of the years
1,2, and 3 cash inflows respectively.
What should P do?

Question51: V buys vegetables and fruit from three farms located in a different part of V's country and sells them to large supermarket chains.
A recent newspaper magazine had an article on these farms showing that the farms employ illegal immigrants whose status was used by the factory's owners to force them to work for low wages and in unpleasant conditions. They are forced to live in small overcrowded caravans with no running water. They are also given meals which are cold and poor quality. These farms are located in a developed country with strong labour laws.
Classify each of the following statements as true or false.

Question52: An oil company has entered into a joint venture with a competing oil company to develop a new oil field. The joint venture arrangement is intended to mitigate the risks associated with developing the oil field.
The following disclosure appears in the oil company's risk report:
"Many of our large projects and operations are conducted through joint ventures. These arrangements involve complex risk allocation and indemnification arrangements and we have less control over these activities than we would have if we had full ownership and control. Our partners may have economic or business interests that are opposed to ours, and may exercise the right to block key decisions or actions. We believe the joint arrangement is in our best interest." Which of the following statements are correct?

Question53: The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) outlined six key principles of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).
Which of the following are COSO key principles?

Question54: A consultancy firm has many overseas clients The firm's staff are responsible for booking travel and accommodation through an independent travel agent who invoices the firm. There are strict rules governing bookings Staff at all levels must book economy class airfares unless the scheduled flight time is greater than eight hours, in which case they can book a business class seat Hotel accommodation should cost less than $300 per night One of the firm's directors is visiting the consultancy team responsible for a large overseas project The director flew business class, even though the flight took only five hours The director is booked into an executive suite at an expensive hotel at a cost of $900 per night Which TWO of the following statements concerning the director's behavior are correct?

Question55: Laura is an accounts clerk. She is supposed to sign each invoice as evidence that she has conducted checks against supporting documents. Sometimes Laura signs invoices without making these checks.
Terry is a member of the internal audit team. Terry has been told to conduct compliance tests on whether Laura is checking the invoices properly.
Which of the following would give Terry a false sense of assurance that Laura's checks have been operating?

Question56: The long-term prospects for inflation in the UK and the USA are 2% and 6% per annum respectively.
The GBP/USD spot rate is currently GBP/USD1.71.
Using purchasing power parity theory, what GBP/USD spot rate would you expect to see in three months' time?

Question57: You are a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and you have recently taken up the position of Sales Manager with a company that is facing financial difficulties. The company's terms include a commitment to maintain specified profitability, liquidity and solvency measures; failure to do so would render bank loans immediately repayable. The draft financial statements show that the company has not succeeded in complying with all of these requirements.
The financial results are very dependent on various estimates such as receivables impairments. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has suggested that these be recalculated so as to bring the financial results within the requirements of the bank. He has asked you to sign pre-dated internal documentation which would imply that, as Sales Manager, you initiated these changes in the belief that they would enhance the accuracy of the Financial Statements.
Which TWO of the following courses of action available to you would be ethically acceptable according to the CIMA Code of Ethics?

Question58: RFD, a listed company, is considering making an investment in a risky new venture. RFD has a substantial cash surplus that will be used to acquire the necessary resources. It is unlikely that RFD would have been able to raise finance for this investment because the company is already highly geared.
Which of the following statements about stakeholders' conflicting interests are true?

Question59: KLO is a major quoted car rental company The company is considering publishing its first cyber risk management report AH rental bookings are made online Customers receive a booking reference number that they use to collect their cars from a convenient branch Customers enter their credit card details both so that KLO can take payment for their rental and also so that the customers can be charged automatically for late returns or damage to cars KLO's management believes that it has three key areas of cyber risk Cyber criminals may wish to make bookings using fictitious data in order to steal KLO's cars, they may wish to use customers details to identify addresses of people who are away from home so that they can burgle houses and they may wish to abuse customer credit card details KLO's Board is concerned that admitting to the nsk of stealing cars might encourage cnminals to exploit that vulnerability AJso. it is concerned that customers will be reluctant to rent cars if that would mean that their homes could be at risk of burglary while they are away The vulnerability of credit card details seems obvious and so the Board is not reluctant to admit to that.
Which TWO of the following are correct?

Question60: A UK based company is considering an investment of GB£1,000,000 in a project in the USA. It is anticipated that the following cash flows will arise from this project.
The cash flows will be either US$400,000 with a probability of 40% or US$700,000 with a probability of 60% for each of the next three years; remitted to the UK at the end of each year.
Currently GB£1.00 is worth US$1.30.
The expected inflation rates in the two countries over the next four years are 2% in the UK and 4% in the US.
Applying the Purchasing Power Parity Theory, which of the following represents the expected net present value of the project in GP£ (to the nearest whole pound)?

Question61: Which of the following are true of interest rate swaps?

Question62: Which of the following statements are true of economic risk?

Question63: TRF is conducting a post completion audit on an investment in a pollution control machine that has reached the end of its five year useful life.
TRF could have been heavily fined if the machine had failed to keep pace with the output of emissions, measured in units. TRF's cost of capital is 10%. When the machine was purchased, there was a choice of three machines on the market:
TRF purchased the Big machine, but annual requirements only exceeded 600,000 once, in year 3, when
720,000 units of emissions were emitted.
Calculate the amount that the post completion audit shows TRF overpaid for the ownership costs associated with this machine.
Give your answer to the nearest whole $ (in $'000s).

Question64: A government department is conducting a value for money audit on a school.
The school's pupils sit leaving exams. Classify each of the audit tests as either economy and efficiency or effectiveness.

Question65: H Ltd is a company providing postal and courier services to small businesses. Customers pay a monthly or annual subscription fee to use the service, plus a very small fee for each item delivered.
A year ago, H employed a new sales team. Their remuneration is dependent on the number of new customers they sign up. Sales increased dramatically in the first six months, but now difficulties are emerging such as new customers dropping their subscription once the initial period has expired; subscriber direct debits being returned unpaid; subscribers going out of business and other similar issues.
Which of the following would be appropriate to help resolve these problems?

Question66: Z plc has recently undertaken a SWOT analysis. The SWOT analysis identified two main threats to Z plc:
* The threat that the currency of Z plc's main overseas competitor weakens compared to Z plc's home currency.
* The threat that there will be a military coup which will overthrow the government in the country that Z plc purchases most of its raw materials from.
Which TWO of the following categories of risk correspond most closely to the above threats?

Question67: JHU has recently completed an eight year project. The project was evaluated at a discount rate of 10% and was accepted because the net present value was $18 million.
In year 3 of the project there was a significant unexpected repair arising because of the implementation stage of the project was rushed and some checks on equipment were skipped to save time. The cost of this was $8 million.
In year 8 of the project the costs of dismantling the project were $11 million more than anticipated because of unexpected changes to the law concerning disposal of industrial scrap.
How should these findings be reflected in the post completion audit?

Question68: Company W produces mobile phone components and has recently tendered for a substantial contract. The results of the tendering process will not become available until three months from now. If the company is successful it will require 2,000 units of a commodity which is currently traded in an open commodity market for $740 per unit. However, there has been speculation that this commodity could increase substantially in price over the next three months and so the company is considering purchasing the commodity now and storing it for three months.
The funds to buy the commodity would be borrowed at an annual interest rate of 7% and the storage cost of the product would be $5.40 per unit per month. The storage costs would be paid at the end of the three month storage period.
Which of the following represents the gain or loss (to the nearest thousand dollars) that will accrue to Company W assuming that the price of the commodity rises to $800 in three months' time?