EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company is considering investing £1 million for a new machine. The new machine is expected to generate
£450,000 incremental before-tax operating cash inflows and £100.000 in additional depreciation expense for each of the next ten years. The company uses the same depreciation assumptions tor book and tax purposes. If the company's income tax rate is 30%, what is the change in the yearly after-tax cash flow from operations if the company invests in the new machine?

Question2: A company can by identical raw materials from four suppliers. Each supplier offers a different term of sale.
Which one of the following terms of sale has the highest effective annual interest rate if the company does not take the cash discount?

Question3: According to the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice, identify and explain the standard(s) that Matthew would violate if he chooses not to report the issue regarding the accounting manager.
Apex Manufacturing lnc. (AMI) is a Canada-based company that manufactures a manufactures and unique part for aircrafts. It has few competitors in the market. The company is exposed to exchange rate risk because about 90% of its products are exported to the U.S, and most of its sales contracts are in U.S. dollars. AMI has the capacity to manufacture 1,500 units of the part per year. For the year just ended. AMI manufactured and sold 1,000 units. The operating results are shown below.

Recently, A new customer made a one-area order of 500 units of the part at $1.200 per unit. The CTO asked the controller to analyze this offer. AMI is considering adjusting its sales price next year in a recent meeting, the CFO suggested to use the market-based approach for pricing decisions, bat the controller insisted that the cost-based approach is more favorable to the company.

Question4: An organization s sol of values and code or ethics is an important consideration in human resource decisions for each of the following reasons except

Question5: A corporation shows the following on its financial statements (in millions).

The corporation has a financial leverage ratio of

Question6: Clark inc, expects to incur the following selected costs an a new product being planned for introduction early next.
* Design an development costs of $100,000 that will be incurred this year.
* Marketing costs of $50,000 to be incurred %50 this year %50 year
* Manufacturing costs of $500,000 to be incurred next year.
* In addition to external market factors, the pricing decision should be based on cost. The product cost that should be used is

Question7: Identify and explain two ways for AMI to hedge its exchange rate risk.
Essay
Apex Manufacturing lnc. (AMI) is a Canada-based company that manufactures a manufactures and unique part for aircrafts. It has few competitors in the market. The company is exposed to exchange rate risk because about 90% of its products are exported to the U.S, and most of its sales contracts are in U.S. dollars. AMI has the capacity to manufacture 1,500 units of the part per year. For the year just ended. AMI manufactured and sold 1,000 units. The operating results are shown below.

Recently, A new customer made a one-area order of 500 units of the part at $1.200 per unit. The CTO asked the controller to analyze this offer. AMI is considering adjusting its sales price next year in a recent meeting, the CFO suggested to use the market-based approach for pricing decisions, bat the controller insisted that the cost-based approach is more favorable to the company.

Question8: With respect to the COSO Enterprise Risk Management Integrated Framework (2017), which one of the following statements is true regarding Governance & Culture and Performance?

Question9: On January 1, 2008 the exchange rate between the U S dollar (S) and Indian Rupee (Rs) was $t = Rs 39. 2676.
On January 1, 2009 the rate was Rs 1 = $0,0205. Based only on the relative currency appreciation or depreciation, which country's exports would likely have increased?

Question10: A co league claims that morality is usually perceived and interpreted differently by different people so there is no method to judge whether one decision is better than another. This is commonly referred to as

Question11: Harris Wholesale Grocery Company has gross sales per year of $7 million and grants credit terms to its customers of 2/5. net 15 As a result. 60% of customers pay on the discount date 20% pay on the net due date, and 20% pay on average 10 days after the due date Assuming that sales are uniform throughout the year and using a 360-day year In the calculation what is the approximate annual amount of discount that Hams customers are allowed to take?

Question12: Explain the impact of a sales price adjustment on AMI's operating income if AMI' s operating leverage is higher than that of other companies in its market.
Essay
Food Depot Ltd, (FDL) 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 in 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 year ago.
In 20X7, sales for the entire company were $1 billion, with 50% of the business coming from the Airline Catering division. FDL is the country 's leading airline catering services provider and control 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-division only contribution 5% of FDL's total sales in 20X7 and is far behind in competing for marketing for market share of the online meal ordering and delivery 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.
Susan Willey, the head of Food-To-Go, does not agree that the Airline Catering division is the best-performing division in the company. Wiley argues that ber division bad the highest ROI in 20X7, and it deserves more capital finding. FDL's requested rate of return is 12%. The selected financial data for the Airline Catering division and Food-To-Go division in 20X7 are as follow (in $ millions)

Question13: A corporation's financial analyst has identified four potential protects that ate mutually exclusive. Each protect will produce a constant annual cash flow for years 1 through 4, and have an initial investment at time 0 shown below. If the corporation has a weighted average cost of capital of 10%, which project should be selected?

Question14: Discuss whether the demand for OLI's new business English course is elastic and explain how OLI can use this information in determining the product price.
Essay
Online Learning Inc. lOLI) is a privately-held company based in the IUC that specializes in providing online courses in English as a Second Language (ESL). OLI is trying to set up a new sales office in a foreign country.
It needs a business license to operate in that country. The license normally lakes six months to obtain. An official of that country said that he could expedite the process for a fee of €300.
OLI estimates the new sales office can bring €300,000 incremental profit annually OLI has just launched a new online 40-houi course to help adult ESL learners master basic business English. The price of the new course is €500 per student, the variable cost is €300 per student, and the total fixed cost of the new course is
€300.000 per year OLI spent €200.000 to develop the new course before launching it. There are many online course providers in the marketplace, and each has its own feature However, OLI's highly qualified staff and good reputation have enabled it to charge a premium price compared to its major competitors. Recent market research indicates that if OLI raises the price of its new business English course by 10V the student enrollment would decrease by 5V A regional airlines company in Asia has approached OLI and offered to enroll 1.000 of its employees in the new course if OLI would agree to a special price of €350 per employee If OLI accepts this offer, an additional €10,000 onetime cost would be required to temporally expand its capacity to accommodate the new students.

Question15: if a company increases the price of its product from $3010 $35, demand would decrease from 30, 000 units to
20.000 units. What is the price elasticity of demand for the company using the midpoint formula?

Question16: The production process of a company s main product yields a by-product Production costs or $700,000 are incurred during this process and $300,000 m additional costs are incurred to finalize the main product. The by-product can be sold for $200 000 without further processing A manager proposed the conversion of the by-product into another product that would cost $100,000 and generate revenue of $250,000. When deciding on this proposal the company should

Question17: Southwest Supplies Inc. (SSI) is considering the following two projects with cash-flows discounted at SSI's weighted average cost of capital.

SSI can only afford to invest in one of the projects. Which statement would most likely explain why SSI would choose Project B over project A?

Question18: Risk maps are used in companies' enterprise risk management system because risk maps

Question19: Essentials inc. operates two segments. Segment A and Segment B information about the revenues and costs for Essentials tot the previous year (by segment) is shown below The above analysis shows that Segment A is not profitable if Segment A is dropped, the revenues associated with the account will be lost and the related variable costs win be eliminated Also, the space freed by this product line will be rented for $40.000. The operating profit (loss) after dropping Segment A will be

Question20: K Malone is a successful entrepreneur, Currently she is considering investing in a capital protect, which would benefit tourism in North Caroina Because of tourism, the State of North Carolina is willing to lent) her
$150,000 at a rate of 5%. well below the market rate Her estimated net cash flows for the 3-year lifetime of the project are S15 000 $89,000 and $60,000 respectively Recommend whether or not Malone should undertake this project.

Question21: A company has incurred $2,500 to produce its four products. These products can either be sold as is or processed further. The selling prices and additional costs necessary to finish these products ace shown below

Question22: In an Enterprise Risk Management environment, which one of the following is the best example of risk sharing?

Question23: An accountant for a company has not used readily available professional development opportunities to stay aware of changes in tax laws and applied previous tax rules to the most recent tax return, resulting in an overpayment of income tax Using IMA's Statement of Ethical Professional Practice, how would the accountant's behavior best be described?

Question24: How many units should be produced and sow it AMI'S target net income is $600,000? Snow your calculations.
Apex Manufacturing lnc. (AMI) is a Canada-based company that manufactures a manufactures and unique part for aircrafts. It has few competitors in the market. The company is exposed to exchange rate risk because about 90% of its products are exported to the U.S, and most of its sales contracts are in U.S. dollars. AMI has the capacity to manufacture 1,500 units of the part per year. For the year just ended. AMI manufactured and sold 1,000 units. The operating results are shown below.

Recently, A new customer made a one-area order of 500 units of the part at $1.200 per unit. The CTO asked the controller to analyze this offer. AMI is considering adjusting its sales price next year in a recent meeting, the CFO suggested to use the market-based approach for pricing decisions, bat the controller insisted that the cost-based approach is more favorable to the company.

Question25: A company had an operating cycle of 110 days, a cash cycle of 40 days, and an accounts receivable period of so days. The company s inventory period and accounts payable period are

Question26: Which one of the following moral philosophies states that the morality of an action is inherent and not based on the consequences of the action?

Question27: Sigma industries is considering purchasing Lambda Products in a cash transaction Sigma financial analysts Dave conducted an extensive amount of negotiation and due diligence and nave summarized the following financial information for management.
* Assets having a 10-year remaining life can be acquired for $22 million
* Assets are to De depreciated over their remaining life on a straight-line basis for Doth book and tax purposes
* Current liabilities of Lambda amounting to S3 million must be assumed by Sigma
* Lambda operations are expected to produce annual pre-tax cash Don of S7 million for the remaining 10 years of operation
* A16% return on investment is required by Sigma for acquisitions of this type
* Sigma's marginal Income tax rate is 35%
What is the net present value to Sigma of the Lambda acquisition rounded to the nearest thousand?

Question28: To minimize me risk of a two-stock portfolio, a company should most likely purchase stocks that have

Question29: Which one of the following situations describes a secondary offering of stock by a company?

Question30: Mow many student enrolments per year ate required for the new busmen English course to break, even at its current price? Snow your calculations Essay Online Learning Inc. lOLI) is a privately-held company based in the IUC that specializes in providing online courses in English as a Second Language (ESL). OLI is trying to set up a new sales office in a foreign country.
It needs a business license to operate in that country. The license normally lakes six months to obtain. An official of that country said that he could expedite the process for a fee of €300.
OLI estimates the new sales office can bring €300,000 incremental profit annually OLI has just launched a new online 40-houi course to help adult ESL learners master basic business English. The price of the new course is €500 per student, the variable cost is €300 per student, and the total fixed cost of the new course is
€300.000 per year OLI spent €200.000 to develop the new course before launching it. There are many online course providers in the marketplace, and each has its own feature However, OLI's highly qualified staff and good reputation have enabled it to charge a premium price compared to its major competitors. Recent market research indicates that if OLI raises the price of its new business English course by 10V the student enrollment would decrease by 5V A regional airlines company in Asia has approached OLI and offered to enroll 1.000 of its employees in the new course if OLI would agree to a special price of €350 per employee If OLI accepts this offer, an additional €10,000 onetime cost would be required to temporally expand its capacity to accommodate the new students.

Question31: Which one or the following costs Is a variable product cost?

Question32: Which one of the following statements regarding working capital management is not correct?

Question33: Explain why facilitating payments can create possible ethical and legal issues tor a company Essay Online Learning Inc. lOLI) is a privately-held company based in the IUC that specializes in providing online courses in English as a Second Language (ESL). OLI is trying to set up a new sales office in a foreign country.
It needs a business license to operate in that country. The license normally lakes six months to obtain. An official of that country said that he could expedite the process for a fee of €300.
OLI estimates the new sales office can bring €300,000 incremental profit annually OLI has just launched a new online 40-houi course to help adult ESL learners master basic business English. The price of the new course is €500 per student, the variable cost is €300 per student, and the total fixed cost of the new course is
€300.000 per year OLI spent €200.000 to develop the new course before launching it. There are many online course providers in the marketplace, and each has its own feature However, OLI's highly qualified staff and good reputation have enabled it to charge a premium price compared to its major competitors. Recent market research indicates that if OLI raises the price of its new business English course by 10V the student enrollment would decrease by 5V A regional airlines company in Asia has approached OLI and offered to enroll 1.000 of its employees in the new course if OLI would agree to a special price of €350 per employee If OLI accepts this offer, an additional €10,000 onetime cost would be required to temporally expand its capacity to accommodate the new students.

Question34: A risk with a high frequency of occurrence but with a low impact, is best managed by which one of the following risk response strategies?

Question35: Assuming mere are no other imitations, should AMI accept the one-time order from a financial perspective?
Explain your answer
Essay
Apex Manufacturing lnc. (AMI) is a Canada-based company that manufactures a manufactures and unique part for aircrafts. It has few competitors in the market. The company is exposed to exchange rate risk because about 90% of its products are exported to the U.S, and most of its sales contracts are in U.S. dollars. AMI has the capacity to manufacture 1,500 units of the part per year. For the year just ended. AMI manufactured and sold 1,000 units. The operating results are shown below.

Recently, A new customer made a one-area order of 500 units of the part at $1.200 per unit. The CTO asked the controller to analyze this offer. AMI is considering adjusting its sales price next year in a recent meeting, the CFO suggested to use the market-based approach for pricing decisions, bat the controller insisted that the cost-based approach is more favorable to the company.

Question36: Marsalls Products Inc. manufactures and sells two products CD-ROMs and DVD's. The latest forecast on me products and their costs tor the coming year is shown in the following table.
Note 1: Fixed manufacturing cost of Si.500 000 per year is allocated to products based on the number of machine hours required to produce the product at a rate of S3 per machine hour The Manufacturing Team leader just informed the CEO that a fire occurred at one of the manufacturing lines and that line would be unavailable for the next 12 months. The result is that mere will only be 400 000 machine Hours available The CEO requested the management team to revise the plan for the coming year based on the new constraint. The Marketing Team leader stated that in order to minimize customer complaints about the shortage, a minimum of 100,000 units of each product should be produced With the new information from the Manufacturing and Marketing teams what is the optimal product mix for the coming 12 months'' Assume Marsalls can sell allot its production.

Question37: A market in which no organized physical exchange exists is referred as a(n)

Question38: Management is responsible for identifying potential events mat could represent opportunities or threats. Which one of the following is not a viable event identification technique?

Question39: When evaluating a capital Budgeting proposal, an advantage of using the payback method is that Bits process

Question40: Explain now QDD's share repurchase plan would affect each of the following measures EPS, the degree of operating leverage, and the interest coverage ratio No calculations required Essay Quality Digital Design (QDD) Inc is a public-traded technology company Selected financial data of QDD for the prior year are as follows

QDD's stock was trading at $160 per share at the beginning of the yea: and at $176 per share by the end of the year. The company paid dividends of S5 per share. The company "s stock had a beta of 1 4 The stock market provided a total return of 12% last year, well above the 3% risk free rate of return QDD is considering the issuance of $200 million of bonds to fund the repurchase of $200 million of its stock.
QDD is evaluating the bond, including its term structure, maturity, and whether it should be callable obtaining the lowest coupon interest is an important objective of QDD. The CFO has estimated that sales for the current year would remain the same as last year and the new bond would add S12 million in annual interest payments

Question41: Delman inc considering upgrading its manufacturing facility, and it is expected that the new equipment will cost $180,000. The project's is considering similar to the risk of the firm's other investments. the after-tax cash inflows attribute to this project are expected to increase by $50,000 every year over the next five years. The firm's marginal tax rate is 30%, its debt-to-equal ratio (using market values) is 60%, and its pre-tax cost of debt and equity are 8% and 12% respectively. the weighted average cost of capital appropriate for evaluating this project is closest to

Question42: Plenary Inc specializes in overnight package delivery. Total packages delivered last year were 10 000.000. and this quantity is expected to remain unchanged in the coming year. Unit contribution margin is $4,50 and total fixed costs are S40.000,000. The firm's 300 delivery truck drivers are seeking a S10 000 raise in annual salary In addition to a current base salary of $45 000 per year, the drivers receive a commission of $0 50 per package delivered If the firm grants the $10,000 salary increase to each driver and seeks to maintain the same level of pre-tax operating profit what is the maximum amount of commission the firm can pay its drivers per package delivered?

Question43: The CFO at GameX, a handheld game manufacturer has asked a financial analyst to provide an analysis and evaluation of the company versus three of its competitors. The analyst prepared the following report.

Based or the analysis the analyst is justified to write in his evaluation mat in order to Improve its position in the market. GameX should

Question44: IF a company does not have a code of conduct, the company most likely

Question45: The Transformer Division of Keller Electrical Supply IS developing its Budget for next year Preliminary estimates for the next year are as follows.
* Sales of 10.000 units
* Variable cost of $350 per unit
* Fixed costs of $800,000
. Net assets utilized on the Transformer Division are $7 million
* Target rate of return on investment required by Keller is 15%
If the Transformer Division utilizes cost-based pricing and uses a markup based on its target rate of return, what price per unit (rounded to the nearest dollar) should it use for the budget?