An electronics company sells a range of tablet computers. Tablet computers come complete with an
operating system that is regarded as the market leader. The company aims to launch a new version of
its hardware every eighteen months and a major update to its software every three years. The latest
version of the tablet computer is always sold at a higher price, but the older version that has been
replaced is then sold for a time at a discounted price.
Which pricing model does this company appear to be using?
Question No 2
K Supermarket spends $80,000 per year on checking and processing receipts of inventory. Annual
warehouse costs are a further $70,000 per year. These costs are currently treated as fixed overheads
in the company's costing system.
As an experiment, the company is preparing a direct profitability analysis of a small range of
products, including fresh grapes.
K Supermarket receives a total of 3,600 deliveries every year. 20% of these deliveries are of
perishable goods such as grapes. It takes twice as long to process a delivery of perishable goods
compared to a normal delivery because perishable goods have to be checked more carefully.
Half of the warehouse costs are for the chilled store that is used to store perishable goods. At any
time, the chilled store has 800 kilos of perishable goods in stock.
K Supermarket receives 150 deliveries of grapes every year. Each delivery is for 100 kilos of grapes.
The grapes spend an average of two days in the chilled store before they are sold.
Calculate the total cost per kilo of checking, processing and storing grapes that should be taken into
account in determining the profitability of grapes.
Give your answer to the nearest whole cent.
Question No 3
A company is classifying its quality costs to prepare a quality cost report. Which of the following are
conformance costs?
Select ALL that apply.
Question No 4
Which of the following would change if the cost of capital of a proposed project was increased?
Question No 5
Division A and Division B are divisions of the same group. Division A transfers all of its output to
Division B.
Which THREE of these alternative transfer pricing bases will prevent any cost inefficiencies in
Division A being passed on to Division B?