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SQA Higher Accounting Preparing Management Accounting Information overview quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. An overhead absorption rate is calculated as which of the following?

  2. Charging a whole overhead to a single cost centre that caused it is called what?

  3. Under FIFO in a period of rising prices, the closing inventory is valued at which costs?

  4. Contribution per unit is calculated as which of the following?

  5. How does marginal costing treat fixed production overhead?

  6. The break-even point in units is calculated as which of the following?

  7. The margin of safety measures which of the following?

  8. Which item should never appear in a cash budget?

  9. In a flexible budget, how are variable costs treated when activity differs from plan?

  10. A material price variance is favourable when which of these is true?

  11. The labour efficiency variance is calculated as which of the following?

  12. Which of the following would make a labour rate variance adverse?

  13. The payback period measures which of the following?

  14. Which limitation is shared by both the payback and accounting rate of return methods?