Question 16

H manufactures and sells healthy dietary supplements. The company recruits individuals as part-time agents to sell its products to friends and colleagues. These agents are required to buy H's products and to resell them at a small mark-up.
For a fee, H will provide agents with training in persuasive selling techniques. Agents who pass exams at the conclusion of this training can become distributors. Distributors buy bulk quantities of H's products at a discount and can recruit their own sales agents. Those agents can also take training and can recruit agents of their own.
At what stage does H stop being a legitimate business and become a pyramid selling fraud?
  • Question 17

    In relation to the use of the adjusted present value (APV) technique, which of the following statements are correct?
  • Question 18

    A project has a net present value of $2 million.
    Total cash outflows of this project have a present value of $14 million, which includes staff costs of $10 million.
    What is the project's sensitivity to staff costs?
  • Question 19

    CH makes a popular type of chocolate bar The bars are made on a production line and are scanned for size and shape as they move along the line Wrong sized and misshapen bars are rejected as being poor quality. The scanner detects 90% of poor quality bars. If CH wants to reduce the risk of poor quality bars being sold to the public it can add a further check by a person scanning the production line as well. this check would detect 80% of poor quality bars If the further check was implemented what percentage of poor quality bars would still get through the checking process?
  • Question 20

    Which of the following actions would breach CIMA's Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants?