A company has budgeted to produce 5,000 units of Product B per month. The opening and closing inventories of Product B for next month are budgeted to be 400 units and 900 units respectively. The budgeted selling price and variable production costs per unit for Product B are as follows:

Total budgeted fixed production overheads are $29,500 per month. The company absorbs fixed production overheads on the basis of the budgeted number of units produced. The budgeted profit for Product B for next month, using absorption costing, is $20,700.
Prepare a marginal costing statement which shows the budgeted profit for Product B for next month.
What was the difference between the profit calculation using marginal costing and the profit calculation using absorption costing?

A company has to choose between three mutually exclusive projects. Market research has shown that customers could react to the projects in three different ways depending on their preferences. There is a
30% chance that customers will exhibit preferences 1, a 20% chance they will exhibit preferences 2 and a 50% chance they will exhibit preferences 3. The company uses expected value to make this type of decision.
The net present value of each of the possible outcomes is as follows:

A market research company believes it can provide perfect information about the preferences of customers in this market.
What is the maximum amount that should be paid for the information from the market research company?

Assume that you have made profit calculations based on standard profit calculation methods and activity based costing methods.
In which ways will this information be beneficial to the management team?
Select all the true statements.

A tennis club is considering running an open day to encourage new members and thus increase membership fees. The cost of the open day will be $1,000. Attendance is dependent on the weather.
There is a 60% chance of good weather and a 40% chance of poor weather on the open day.
The expected new membership fees are:

What is the expected value of running the open day?
Give your answer as a whole number.

Information about a company's two products is as follows:

The products are currently sold in equal quantities.
Monthly fixed costs are $360,000.
What is the monthly breakeven sales revenue assuming a sales quantity mix of 50/50?
Give your answer to the nearest $.