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NEW QUESTION 36
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?

NEW QUESTION 37
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?

NEW QUESTION 38
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)?

NEW QUESTION 39
In relation to the use of the adjusted present value (APV) technique, which of the following statements are correct?

NEW QUESTION 40
You are the Management Accountant for P, a food manufacturing company with an annual sales revenue of $5 million.
You discover that the Production Manager’s records are inconsistent. Raw materials purchased do not agree to the total recorded for transfers to production plus wastage. There is an average shortfall of 2% of purchases.
You investigated and discovered that there are often mistakes made during manufacturing that results in food that is safe to eat, but cannot be sold because of visual flaws. The Production Manager is supposed to scrap all such damaged product and write all such losses off as waste, but you discovered 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.
What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 41
X 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?

NEW QUESTION 42
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?

NEW QUESTION 43
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?

NEW QUESTION 44
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?

NEW QUESTION 45
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?

NEW QUESTION 46
Company X has been advised by its internal audit team that it should have a fraud response policy A is a new member in the internal audit team and he does not see why this would help to prevent fraud and has asked for an explanation Which TWO of the following would be included in this explanation? It would act as a deterrent and help prevent staff from committing fraud

NEW QUESTION 47
GUJ A small but rapidly expanding company has recently opened several branches in locations far away from the Head Office. All of the branches are relatively small with no one branch accounting for more than 5% of turnover. Management has decided that the company is not yet large enough to install an Internal Audit function but is, nonetheless, concerned about maintaining adequate control and monitoring at the branches whilst allowing Branch Managers the opportunity to react to local circumstances as appropriate.
Which of the following measures would assist Head Office management in maintaining appropriate monitoring and control at the branches?

NEW QUESTION 48
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.

NEW QUESTION 49
Which TWO of the following are NOT methods used for risk identification?

NEW QUESTION 50
H sells machinery and also associated services, such as advice and repairs. H’s industry is going through considerable transformation.
Classify each of the examples of information available to H’s management as strategic, operational or of having little value.

NEW QUESTION 51
Company A’s gross profit percentage has fallen from 70% to 61 % Which of the following possible explanations would most concern the internal auditors?

NEW QUESTION 52
E purchases parts for one of the machines it manufactures from Country X Place the risk classification next to the risk it relates to:

NEW QUESTION 53
S, a qualified and experienced professional accountant, has been appointed as a non-executive member of the Audit Committee of X X has recently obtained a listing on the second tier of a reputable Stock Exchange B, the Finance Director, is only worried about the maintenance of proper financial controls and is less concerned with operational controls S has asked A.
The Production Director, to produce regular reports for the Audit Committee on production specification compliance and related issues A is concerned that this means S does not think he is doing his job properly and doubts his integrity In relation to this scenario, which of the following statements are valid?
Select ALL that apply.

NEW QUESTION 54
With regard to the rote of the audit committee which of the following statements are correct? Select ALL that apply

NEW QUESTION 55
R is a company running gas-fired power stations in Western Europe. The Risk Committee has just received a report that a power station built to the same design and specification in a developing country has recently collapsed. The causes of the collapse are unclear, but if something similiar were to happen in Europe the consequences for R could be catastrophic.
Which of the following actions being considered by the Risk Committee are ethical?

NEW QUESTION 56
K plc is a large listed company in the retail industry. It has recently appointed T as a non-executive director. T has never had any previous involvement with K plc but is well known to K’s Chief Executive P because T is the Managing Director of K plc’s largest supplier.
K has recently expanded into Asia. Doubts about the wisdom of the move have been expressed in the financial press with some journalists commenting that it has exposed K plc to higher degrees of risk than previously.
The move had been approved by the Risk Committee which consists of four Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) all of whom have significant experience in business.
K plc does not have a Nominations Committee. Nominations to the Board are usually proposed by P and generally agreed by the other directors.
In relation to the above scenario which of the following comments is valid?

NEW QUESTION 57
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?