EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: BCD has recently experienced a cyber security breach which fortunately was carried out by someone more interested in demonstrating the weakness in its defence than by someone malicious This has made BCD realise that its cyber defence is inadequate BCD has engaged a cyber security consultant who has advised BCD to set up a Computer Incident Response Team (GIRT) What THREE of the following activities would this CIRT have responsibility for?
Recruit specialist security staff to avoid an incident

Question4: Which of the following is the major advantage of Cloud storage for an enterprise?

Question5: Which TWO of the following are reasons for a company to comply with the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission 2017 Enterprise Risk Management Framework (COSO Framework)?

Question6: J plc is a wholesale building supply business. It has a large warehouse where some of its materials are stored.
Last month three accidents occurred where employees were slightly injured whilst moving items from the 5th shelf. The 5th shelf is located 15 metres up from the ground.
This is a health and safety risk and could also be a reputation risk in the longer term.
Which of the following risk mitigations should the company employ?

Question7: B, a construction company, has a policy of carrying out a post completion audit on every construction project undertaken where the value exceeds $1 million.
What is the role of the post completion audit?

Question8: R plc is considering an investment of $1,100,000 in a new machine which is expected to have substantial cash inflows over the next five years.
The annual cash flows from this investment and their probability are shown below:
Annual cash flow ($) Probability
200,000 0.4
280,000 0.5
350,000 0.1
At the end of its five-year life, the asset is expected to sell for $100,000. The cost of capital is 5%.
What is the Expected Net Present Value?
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.

Question9: C is an accounts clerKwho is supposed to sign each invoice as evidence that she has conducted checks against supporting documents Sometimes C signs invoices without making these checks D is a member of the internal audit team He has been told to conduct compliance tests on whether C is checking the invoices property Which of the following would grve D a false sense of assurance that C's checks have been in operation?
Select ALL that appry

Question10: Assuming a company has both internal auditors and risk managers, indicate which of these would perform the duties listed below:

Question11: Company C wishes to recruit an employee who will have responsibility for, among other things, the receipt and handling of cash. Which THREE of the following would be most likely to provide useful information about the candidate from the point of view of the Internal Auditor?

Question12: UJK manufactures garden machinery. The company is dependent upon another manufacturer for the motors that power its products.
One of the factors that is being considered in a stress test requested by UJK's Board is the possibility that the motor manufacturer increases its selling prices by 10% The motor accounts for a significant proportion of the overall manufacturing cost of UJK's products Which of the following are correct?

Question13: K has several subsidiary companies. The directors of K's subsidiaries are paid an annual bonus based upon their particular subsidiary's reported profits.
The directors of one of K's subsidiaries are considering the choice between two models of a machine.
Which of the following is most likely to explain the decision to choose model X over model Y?

Question14: JKL makes large export sales to customers in country X, whose currency fluctuates significantly against JKL's home currency JKL also makes large purchases from suppliers in countrrOC All of these transactions are in country X's currency JKL's treasurer does not actively hedge currency risks because there is a natural hedge in place due to the company making both sales and purchases in the same currency JKL's board has instructed the treasurer to put active hedging measures in place because the risk report would otherwise have to disclose the fact that JKL has a currency risk which is not actively hedged Which of the following statements are correct? Select ALL that apply.

Question15: Company N is considering opening another production plant in Northland, a country 2000 km from its current production plant location N would also sell its products in Northland Which TWO of the following are business risks'

Question16: THG is a quoted company that manufactures expensive clothes that are sold to upmarket department stores THG's Board has commissioned a stress test to identify the impact of strategic risks The consultant who is conducting the test is currently investigating the impact that a 1 % increase in interest rates would have on THG.
Which TWO of the following are valid reasons for including an increase in interest rates in the stress test?

Question17: IOP manufactures aircraft engines. The company is presently engaged in a scenario planning exercise to consider the implications of a possible ban on the use of fossil fuels by the year 2040.
Which TWO of the following would be realistic responses to the scenario?

Question18: A project requires a capital investment of £2.7million. The project will save £450,000 each year after taxation.
Assume the savings are in perpetuity. The business risk of the venture requires a 15% discount rate. The company has to borrow £1million to finance the project at a rate of 9% and the net tax shield is 30%, the project supports debt which generates an interest tax shield of 0.30 x 0.09 x £1million, which is £27,000 per year in perpetuity.
Calculate the project's adjusted present value.

Question19: The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) outlined six key principles of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).
Which of the following are COSO key principles?

Question20: The Dean of Information Technology at Capital City University wishes to develop a degree in 'ethical hacking" Students will graduate from this course with the skills needed to develop malware, so that they have the ability to reverse engineer malicious software The Dean believes that there will be strong demand for such graduates from employers in IT security and related fields.
Which TWO of the following statements are correct?

Question21: As part of risk assessment exercise for a low-cost airline you are requested to match the risks listed below with the most approriate method of minimising or dealing with each risk.

Question22: Which TWO of the following are NOT methods used for risk identification?

Question23: H is a senior production manager for P Ltd which is about to make a strategic decision on setting up a new production line requiring $3 million of new specialist equipment.
H's daughter is friends with and goes to school with the daughter of T, the sales manager in KK Ltd. KK Ltd is a potential supplier of the specialist equipment that P Ltd requires.
T owns a holiday home. H's daughter regularly accompanies T's daughter on family vacations at this holiday home, all at T's expense.
H is the only person working for P Ltd who is qualified to select the specialist equipment. KK Ltd will definitely bid for the sale.
What should H do?

Question24: B uses a balanced scorecard to monitor the performance of its divisions.
Classify each of the following decisions taken by a division's management team as either commercially sound or dysfunctional.

Question25: Which of the following statements best explains why a corporate treasury department should be established as a cost centre rather than a profit centre?

Question26: XYZ is unhappy with the way it decides on the likelihood and impact of risks when it completes the TARA matrix XYZ has decided to try other ways to get more consensus over the evaluation of risks as high, medium and low impact and likelihood Which of the following methods is likely to be most successful?

Question27: Which TWO of the following scenarios should be considered in strategic scenario planning by a publishing company that specialises in academic textbooks?

Question28: SDF has a variable rate loan of $100 million on which it is paying interest of LIBOR + 2%.
SDF entered into a swap with CV bank to convert this to a fixed rate 7% loan. CV bank charges an annual commission of 0.3% for making this arrangement.
Calculate the net payment from SDF to CV bank at the end of the first year if LIBOR was 3% throughout the year.
Give your answer in $ million, to one decimal place.

Question29: 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.

Question30: 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?

Question31: Why do businesses take risks?
Select the TWO correct answers.

Question32: Which categories on a risk map best describe the loss of sales floor staff in a fast fashion chain?

Question33: 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?

Question34: Why is it potentially useful for an organisation to maintain a risk register?

Question35: R is a manufacturer of biscuits. The market for biscuits is extremely competitive with many companies competing for contracts with large supermarkets. The intensity of the competition means that prices are kept low; and the buyers can demand higher levels of quality, and greater flexibility in supply arrangements.
Which of the following represent ways that the use of an Information System could help R to win and retain supermarket contracts in such a competitive market?

Question36: Which of the following represents the greatest risk associated with introducing a system of post-completion audit for investment projects?

Question37: You are the management accountant for YY a food manufacturing company with an annual sales revenue of
$6 million
You discover that the production manager's records are inconsistent Raw materials purchased do not agree with the total recorded for transfers to production plus wastage There is an average shortfall of 2% of purchases You have investigated and discovered that there are often errors made during manufacturing that results in food that is safe to eat but. because of visual flaws, cannot be sold The production manager is supposed to scrap all such damaged products and write all such losses off as waste You have discovered however that he has been giving the damaged food to a charity that assists homeless people No records are made of such gifts in order to conceal the losses due to manufacturing errors Which of the following actions should you take? Select ALL that apply

Question38: QAW is a quoted building company QAW has detailed rules relating to the wording of its contracts and the need to seek Board approval for any changes to the standard wording The Convener of the Audit Committee has just received a copy of an internal audit report relating to the QAW Land Reclamation subsidiary The subsidiary has signed several construction contracts over the past two years that have made significant changes to the standard wording, with no attempt to seek approval from QAW's Board The internal audit report quotes the manager in charge of QAW Land Reclamation as refusing to accept that there is a compliance error at the subsidiary The manager stated that the nature of the business done by QAW Land Reclamation would make it inappropriate to use the standard contract terms and that it would be impractical to seek permission for every one of the many changes that are necessary Which of the following would be an appropriate response to this item by QAW's Board?

Question39: T is an accountant who has been accused of professional incompetence T agreed to advise a client on currency management and the client lost a great deal of money when a large foreign currency trade receivable declined in value without having been hedged.
Which of the following factors strengthens the case that T has been incompetent?
Select ALL that apply

Question40: 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?

Question41: Which of the following are threats to the control environment?

Question42: DFG's call centre budgets four minutes for its operators to deal with a customer's enquiry and conclude the call. Team leaders are evaluated on the basis of the average call length.
Simone is a team leader. Her team's average call length is five minutes and 30 seconds. Simone accepts full responsibility. She encourages her team members to check that the customer is satisfied before concluding the call.
On investigation, it was discovered that 2% of the customers who dealt with Simone's team had to call DFG again within seven days. Other teams had an average of 25% of customers call back within seven days because their first call had not fully resolved their problem.
Which of the following statements are true?

Question43: 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?

Question44: Which of the following statements are correct?

Question45: P Ltd, a service company, is seeking to recruit engineers to work in its maintenance division. Which TWO of the following suggestions will be most likely to help prevent fraud when recruiting the engineers?

Question46: Identify, from the list provided, which category of business risk most accurately describes the events detailed below.

Question47: DFR is an online retailer that sells picture frames The software running on DFR's website enables customers to log in and make purchases by inputting an email address as a user name and a password that must contain at least eight characters, including upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation marks (e.g. £, $ or!) Once logged in, customers can check previous orders that they have placed.
Customers can also use DFR's website to change personal details, including credit card numbers and delivery addresses Whenever they wish to use those facilities, the software sends a text message containing a six-digit number to their mobile phones They must input that number before the system will accept changes to their personal details Which TWO of the following statements are correct?

Question48: Rio owns an architects business which employs 12 skilled architects and four administrative staff.
The Office Manager has just attended a workshop on internal controls and the way in which they can improve organisations. He intends to implement some internal controls as soon as possible.
What are the limitations of an internal control system in Rio's business?

Question49: Z is a multinational pharmaceuticals company with operations across Europe, America and Asia.
It is currently investigating the possibility of setting up a chemical and specialist production facility in South America. This would be a multi $billion investment. What steps should Z take to manage the following risks in this long term venture.

Question50: You are a consultant to an international charity which provides aid to people displaced by war, civil unrest, and natural disaster. The charity has requested you to carry out a post implementation review on their new procurement and logistics system. Which TWO of the following should you be most concerned about when conducting this review?

Question51: Which of the following will increase the value of a call option?

Question52: M plc is an IT company that bids for large contracts to sell computer systems and also to service existing systems. M plc's senior management has always set budgets which are hard to achieve and have made no allowances for the recession.
The economy has improved and M plc's senior managers have made the budget even more optimistic. The budgeted sales target has been increased by 40%.
In the past, sales staff have not tried to achieve the budget sales because it was generally believed that the targets were impossible to reach.
M plc has recently appointed a new Sales Director who has decided that sales staff will be dismissed if they fail to meet sales targets for three successive months. He is also looking for higher sales margins than were achieved before.
What are the likely consequences of the new Sales Director's policy?

Question53: 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?

Question54: G plc has decided to move its production plant to overseas Country A.
This would make the product cheaper to produce. The technology used to make the product is very advanced and some of the staff would have to move to Country A.
The Production Director has identified that there are some political risks in moving to Country A.
Match the methods of reducing the political risks associated with the move to Country A with the corresponding risks.

Question55: DFG is the largest bridge-building company in its home country, H.
DFG works exclusively for the government of country H and the government awards DFG 80% of the contracts to build new bridges.
DFG's directors are considering using the big data approach to identify opportunities to increase sales revenues and profit.
Which of the following statements are true?

Question56: B is a company with a strong risk appetite. Which of the following are benefits of using the certainty equivalent method of capital investment appraisal in B's case?

Question57: 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?

Question58: Which of the following are the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) key principles of enterprise risk management?
Select ALL that apply.

Question59: S Doc is an out-of-hours service provided by a country's government. The service allows members of the public to call and speak to a nurse who can advise on medical situations which are not obviously emergencies.
Depending on the situation the caller can be referred to the full emergency services, or be advised to go to Accident and Emergency at the nearest hospital. Alternatively, a callout from a general practitioner (GP) can be organised; the caller can be advised of where GP services are available; advice can be given over the phone; or a decision can be taken that no further action is required at least until normal services resume on the next working day.
There has been a suggestion that the nurses who take these calls could be replaced by suitably trained operatives who have available to them a specially designed expert system.
Which of the following are advantages of using an expert system instead of nurses?

Question60: D plc is a public relations company. Shares in D plc have recently been listed on the UK stock exchange.
D plc has an internal audit department that reports to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The CEO is considering outsourcing internal audit to an audit firm, which would not be the firm that conducts D plc's external audit.
Identify THREE advantages to D plc of outsourcing internal audit in this way.

Question61: Amber selects appropriate suppliers and places purchase orders.
Brian passes invoices for payment and submits payment instructions to the bank.
Chris checks incoming inventory and unpacks goods from their containers.
Dirwan posts purchase invoices and files invoices and supporting documents.
Which member of staff could most easily commit fraud?

Question62: Zia is an accountant and wishes to take out a Forward Rate Agreement (FRA) as a hedging instrument. The company treasurer has advised that a short-term interest rate (STIR) future would be better.
Which of the following is true of an STIR?

Question63: The Head of IT Security has been asked to conduct a detailed forensic analysis of a suspected data breach that ted to customer credit card details being intercepted.
Which TWO of the following would be suitable objectives for such a forensic analysis?

Question64: 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.

Question65: 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?

Question66: ABC is an online retail chain which operates on a 24/7 basis It has been updating its Cyber Security processes and has implemented a centralised monitoring process to track activity through its web access portal Which of the following activities will increase the awareness of its cyber security risk most effectively?

Question67: Which risks should be given the highest priority?

Question68: A project has a net present value of $2 million.
Total cash outflows of this project have a present value of $14 million, which includes staff costs of $10 million.
What is the project's sensitivity to staff costs?

Question69: Q is a company which generates electricity from alternative energy sources. It has just begun constructing a wind farm near a well-known beauty spot. The project has been controversial as campaigners say it will be noisy and unsightly.
The campaigners took legal action but lost the case. Some of them have started a campaign of direct action against Q and are physically blocking roads leading to the site and attempting to intimidate Q's staff.
Q has hired a security company to help it to protect its staff.
In relation to the ethics of this scenario, which of the following statements are valid?

Question70: Division A of X plc produced the following results in the last financial year.
Net profit $200,000 Gross capital employed $1,000,000
For evaluation purposes all divisional assets are valued at original cost.
The division is considering a project that has a positive NPV, will increase annual net profit by $15,000, but will require average inventory levels to increase by $50,000 and non-current assets to increase by $50,000.
X plc imposes a 16% capital charge on its divisions. Given these circumstances, will the evaluation criteria of return on investment (ROI) and residual income (RI) motivate division A managers to accept the project?

Question71: 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?

Question72: HIW manufactures motorcycles and has factories in several countries HIW produces several different types of motorcycle, with different models often being tailored to suit the needs of customers in specific countries HIW has identified a positive net present value project to build a new factory in Farland, which will make motorcycles for sale in Farland and for export to neighbouring countries HIW has not previously traded in Fartand or its neighbours Farland is regarded as politically and economically unstable and its currency is highly volatile against other leading currencies HIWs Board wishes to consider the interests of different stakeholder groups who will be affected by the investment in Farland The Board recognises that there could be conflict between the goals of maximising profit and of maximising shareholder wealth Which THREE of the following statements are correct?

Question73: A patient has been prescribed a new medicine by their physician. The medicine is accompanied by a leaflet describing potential adverse effects associated with taking it. Most of these potentially adverse effects are trivial, but the leaflet states that three patients in every 10,000 who take the medicine suffer a severe reaction requiring urgent medical attention.
Which of the following statements is true?

Question74: CW is a large company in the food production industry. It has grown over the years by the acquisition of several smaller rivals CW 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 the following changes would be most likely to improve the overall control system?

Question75: 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.

Question76: Which of the following statements concerning the use of balanced scorecards to measure divisional performance is correct?

Question77: A UK manufacturing company has simultaneously:
* purchased a put option to sell USD 1million at an exercise price of GBP1.00 = USD1.65
* sold a call option that grants the option holder the right to buy USD 1million at a price of GBP1.00 = USD1.61 (this option has the same maturity date as the put).
Which of the following is a valid explanation for entering into these option positions?

Question78: SDF is a quoted company. Which of the following matters should normally be dealt with by SDF's audit committee?