During a Board meeting at a manufacturing company, concerns regarding the analysing of the current inventory management systems and processes are brought up.
Attendees of the meeting have made several claims and suggestions but the managing director admits that he does not know who to believe and so has asked you to let him know which statements of the following statements are TRUE?
Select ALL that apply.

A firm of accountants uses an activity-based costing system. The firm's costing system permits staff to indicate specific tasks undertaken for clients, such as requesting missing information. The amount charged for a request for missing information is based on the following analysis.
Each request takes an average of 15 minutes of professional staff time. Professional staff are charged out at $100 per hour.
Administrators then process the information request and prepare a standard letter. The average time administration staff spend on each information request is 20 minutes. The cost of administration staff at the firm is $75,600 per year. Administration staff work for a total of 6,000 hours per year. The cost of printing and posting a letter is $1.
Calculate the cost of an information request.
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

Risk management can be represented as a four step process. The four steps, shown randomly, are:
1. Establish appropriate risk management policies.
2. Risks are identified by key stakeholders.
3. Risks are monitored on an ongoing basis.
4. Risks are evaluated according to the likelihood of occurrence and impact on the organization.
Which of the following is the correct order for the four steps?

A supermarket group has experienced operational problems during recent years, including a shortage of warehousing space due to increasing turnover and poor inventory management. The product portfolio has expanded considerably. Although this has led to increased sales volume, marketing and logistics costs have increased disproportionately. Non product-specific costs have also increased significantly.
Management is now considering using Direct Product Profitability (DPP).
Which of the following statements are valid in respect of the possible implementation of DPP within the supermarket group?
Select ALL that apply.

A company currently absorbs production overheads based on labor hours. The overheads absorbed by the two products that are made, L and M, are $4 per unit and $10 per unit respectively. These were based on the budgeted overheads of $7,000 and budgeted labor hours of 1,750. The budgeted output was 500 units of each product.
The company is investigating the use of activity based costing (ABC). Analysis has shown that the total production overheads of $7,000 are made up of $4,000 for set up costs and $3,000 for inspection costs.
The cost driver for set up costs is the number of set ups and for inspection costs it is the number of inspections.
The cost driver rate for set ups is $160 per set up. Product L would need 5 production runs. Both types of product would need 1 set up for each production run.
Product L would need 2 inspections for each production run. Product M would need 1 inspection per production run.
The products are made in the same department and use the same equipment and staff but they are produced separately.
Which of the following statements are correct?
Select ALL that apply.