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  • A. event table
  • B. outcome table
  • C. decision table
  • D. probability table

Explanation: A decision table lists alternative decisions or outcomes together with possible events and their probabilities, helping compare expected…

Correct answer: decision table
  • A. 4.84
  • B. 2.84
  • C. 3.84
  • D. 5.84

Explanation: The degree of operating leverage is contribution margin divided by operating income: $34,000 ÷ $12,000 = 2.83, rounded to 2.84.

Correct answer: 2.84
  • A. quantity of units required to sold
  • B. selling of units
  • C. sold units
  • D. contributed units

Explanation: Required unit sales are calculated as (fixed cost + target operating income) ÷ contribution margin per unit.

Correct answer: quantity of units required to sold
  • A. mutual distribution
  • B. probability distribution
  • C. collective distribution
  • D. marginal distribution

Explanation: A probability distribution assigns probabilities to possible outcomes, whose events are normally mutually exclusive and collectively…

Correct answer: probability distribution
  • A. 45 units
  • B. 30 units
  • C. 20 units
  • D. 52 units

Explanation: Required units equal (fixed cost + target operating income) ÷ contribution margin per unit: ($10,000 + $8,000) ÷ $900 = 20 units.

Correct answer: 20 units
  • A. 33.34%
  • B. 43.34%
  • C. 23%
  • D. 25%

Explanation: The contribution margin ratio is fixed costs divided by break-even revenue: $15,000 ÷ $45,000 = 33.33%, which rounds to 33.34%.

Correct answer: 33.34%
  • A. margin of safety
  • B. margin of profit
  • C. margin of loss
  • D. margin of income

Explanation: Margin of safety is the excess of actual or expected revenue over break-even revenue.

Correct answer: margin of safety
  • A. $35,000
  • B. $13,000
  • C. $5,000
  • D. $10,000

Explanation: Margin of safety equals budgeted revenue minus break-even revenue: $20,000 − $15,000 = $5,000.

Correct answer: $5,000
  • A. initial offering cost
  • B. batch marketing cost
  • C. product marketing cost
  • D. product design cost

Explanation: Product-sustaining costs support an entire product line, regardless of the number of batches or units produced; product design is an…

Correct answer: product design cost
  • A. cost variance is favorable
  • B. cost variance is unfavorable
  • C. price variance is favorable
  • D. price variance is unfavorable

Explanation: When actual material price is below the budgeted price, the price variance reduces cost and is favorable.

Correct answer: price variance is favorable
  • A. price requirements
  • B. supply requirements
  • C. budgeted performance
  • D. demand requirements

Explanation: Budgeted performance is the expected level of performance established in advance through the budgeting process.

Correct answer: budgeted performance
  • A. less than zero
  • B. equal to zero
  • C. favorable
  • D. unfavorable

Explanation: Labor price variance compares the actual labor rate with the budgeted rate.

Correct answer: unfavorable
  • A. focused performance
  • B. merchandise performance
  • C. distribution performance
  • D. expected performanceHire Grant Writers

Explanation: Management control compares actual performance with expected performance, such as a budget, standard, or target.

Correct answer: expected performanceHire Grant Writers
  • A. $409,000
  • B. $109,000
  • C. $209,000
  • D. $309,000

Explanation: Flexible budget variance is the difference between actual cost and flexible-budget cost: $265,000 − $156,000 = $109,000.

Correct answer: $109,000
  • A. direct variance
  • B. rate variance
  • C. labor variance
  • D. manufacturing variance

Explanation: For direct manufacturing labor, the price variance measures the difference between the actual and standard hourly wage rate.

Correct answer: rate variance
  • A. $400,000
  • B. $500,000
  • C. $100,000
  • D. $600,000Try Statistical Software

Explanation: Static budget variance equals the actual result minus the static-budget amount: $250,000 − $150,000 = $100,000.

Correct answer: $100,000
  • A. correspondent budget
  • B. full budget variance
  • C. methodology variance
  • D. static budget variance

Explanation: Static budget variance is the difference between the actual result and the corresponding amount in the original static budget.

Correct answer: static budget variance
  • A. actual quantity manufactured
  • B. budgeted quantity manufactures
  • C. budgeted quantity sold
  • D. budgeted input quantity

Explanation: When efficiency variance is expressed in input-quantity terms, subtracting it from actual input gives the standard or budgeted input…

Correct answer: budgeted input quantity
  • A. flexible budget cost
  • B. flexible investment cost
  • C. static budget cost
  • D. static variable cost

Explanation: Flexible budget variance reconciles actual cost with the cost allowed for the actual activity level, so subtracting it from actual cost…

Correct answer: flexible budget cost
  • A. efficiency
  • B. effectiveness
  • C. growth evaluation
  • D. performance evaluationAccounting & Auditing

Explanation: Efficiency measures how much input was used to achieve a specified output, usually by comparing actual input with the standard input…

Correct answer: efficiency