St. Joseph’s College of Commerce B.Com. 2015 VI Sem Corporate Knowledge Integration Question Paper PDF Download

 

  1. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE OF COMMERCE (AUTONOMOUS)

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION – MARCH / APRIL 2015

 B.COM – VI SEMESTER  
C1 11 604: CORPORATE KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION
Duration: 3 Hours                                                                                             Max. Marks: 100
SECTION – A
  Answer Question No. 1 which is compulsory and any other four questions from the remaining: Each carries 20 Marks.                                                  (5×20=100)

 

  1. Old Plant and Machinery (original costs) Rs. 15,00,000 purchased on 30/9/2012; salvage value is Rs. 1,00,000. Life is 4 years. The rate of depreciation as per the companies Act  in straight line method whereas income tax rate of depreciation is 25%.

a)      Calculate the amount of depreciation for 4 years as per  Companies Act and Income Tax Act (Assuming that there is no additional depreciation)

b)     If a new machinery worth Rs. 5,00,000 was purchased on 4th October 2013, calculate depreciation as per the Companies and IT Act.

c)      If old machinery is sold for Rs. 15,00,000 on 10th January 2013, calculate capital gain as per the Companies Act and the IT Act. All calculations to be done for PY 13-14.

  2. A cement manufacturer has provided you with the details of the two grades of cement manufactured and sold for a given period

Particulars Cement Grade 53 Cement Grade 43
Sales amount

Sales quantity (Kg)

Variable cost

Fixed cost

Product mix

1,23,000

1500

 

93,000

24,960

60%

1,63,800

2100

 

1,17,600

40%

 

·         Estimate their respective break even quantity

·         The margin of safety in units and value

·         The revised break even if the overall profit after tax estimated by the company is 20%

  3.
  1. I had purchased & 20000 worth of shares at Rs. 125 per share from the Indian Market (1& = Rs. 42) on 1st January.  I plan to sell 80% of the shares on 31st December at Rs. 150 per share.  The expected market value is 1$ = Rs. 45/-  The cost of capital is 10% per annum

Calculate the following

·         What is the purchase price in Rupees

·         What is the total sale in dollar?

·         What is the net profit/loss incurred in dollar?

·         If we use cost of capital 10% what is the present value of selling price in Rupees.

 

  1. Calculate EOQ, EOQ if there is 10% discount on material cost if we buy 500 units at a time

·         Annual demand 600 units

·         Ordering cost Rs. 400

·         Holding cost 40%

·         Cost per unit of raw material Rs. 15

  1.  A company is considering the pushing up of its sales by extending credit facilities to the following categories of customers.

Category a: Customers with a 10% risk of non payment

Category b: Customers with a 30% risk of non payment

·         The incremental sales expected in case of category (a) are Rs. 40000 while in case of category (b) Rs 50000

·         The cost of production and selling costs are 60% of sales while the collection costs amount to 5% of sales in case of category (a) and 10% in case of category (b)

·         You are required to advise the firm about extending credit facilities to each of the above categories of customers.

 

  4. Bombay steel manufactures four products, namely A,B,C and D, using the same plant and process. The following information relates to a production period:

Product Volume Material cost per unit (Rs.) Direct labour per unit Machine time per unit Labour cost per unit
A 500 5 ½ hour ¼ hour 3
B 5,000 5 ½ hour ¼ hour 3
C 600 16 2 hours 1 hour 12
D 7,000 17 1 ½ hours 1 ½ hours 9

 

Total production overhead recovered by the cost accounting system is analyzed under the following headings:

(Rs)

Factory overheads applicable to machine oriented activity 37,424
Set up costs are 4,355
Cost of ordering materials 1,920
Handling materials 7,580
Administration for spare parts 8,600

These overhead costs are absorbed by products on a machine hour rate Rs. 4.80 per hour giving an overhead cost per product of:

A=Rs1.20, B=Rs.1.20, C=Rs.4.80, D=Rs.7.20

However, investigation into the production overhead activities for the period reveals the following totals:

Product Number of set-ups Number of materials orders Number of times material was handled Number of spare parts
A 1 1 2 2
B 6 4 10 5
C 2 1 3 1
D 8 4 12 4

You are required:

(i)                 To compute an overhead cost per product using Activity based costing, tracing overheads to production units by means of cost drivers

(ii)              To comment briefly on the differences disclosed between overheads traced by the present system and those traced by Activity based costing.

  5. The data below relates to Venus Ltd., which makes and sells computers:

  MARCH APRIL
Sales 5000 Units 10,000 Units
Production 10,000 Units 5,000 Units
Selling price per unit (Rs) 100 100
Variable production cost per unit(Rs) 50 50
Fixed production overhead incurred 1,00,000 1,00,000
Fixed production overhead cost per unit, being the pre-determined overhead absorption rate 10 10
Selling distribution and administration cost (all fixed) 50,000 50,000

You are required to present comparative profit statements for each month using:

(a)   Absorption costing (b) Marginal costing

  6. Ambika Condiments bring out 2 products “SUCHI” and “RUCHI” which are popular in market. The management has the option to alter the sales-mix of the 2 products from out of the following combinations:

Option SUCHI (Units) RUCHI (Units)
I 800 600
II 1,600
III 1,300
IV 1,100 500

 

The per unit production cost/sales data are:

  SUCHI RUCHI
Direct Material (Rs.) 25 30
Direct Labour (hours) 10 12

Variable factory overhead is 100% of direct labour cost for both products.

Selling price (Rs.)          75               90

Labour rate is 2 per hour

Common fixed overhead for both products Rs. 10,000

You are required to –

(i)                 Prepare a marginal cost statement for the two products; and

(ii)              Evaluate the options and identify the most profitable sales-mix.

  7. Prepare a Cash budget for the three months ending 30th June from the following information

(Rs. ‘000)

Month Sales Materials Wages Overheads
February

March

April

May

June

14

15

16

17

18

9.6

9

9.2

10

10.4

3

3

3.2

3.6

4

1.7

1.9

2

2.2

2.3

Credit terms are

  • Sales/debtors 10% sales are on cash, 50% of the credit sales are collected next month and the balance in the following month:
  • Creditors:

Materials 2 months

Wages ¼ month

Overheads ½ month

  • Cash and bank balance on 1st April is expected to be Rs. 6000
  • Plant and machinery will be installed in February at a cost of RS. 96000.  The monthly installment of Rs. 2000 is payable from April onward
  • Dividend @5% on preference share capital of Rs. 200000 will be paid on 1st June
  • Advance to be received for sale of vehicles Rs. 9000 in June
  • Dividends from investments amounting to Rs. 1000 are expected to be received in June
  • Income tax advance to be paid in June – Rs. 2000

 

 

 

 

 

8. Prepare Balance sheet on daily basis.  Assume that all these transactions occurred in March 1st to 12th  and that there were no other transactions in March

  • Day 1: Owner contributed Rs. 20000 and borrowed Rs. 10000
  • Day 2: The store purchased and received merchandise for inventory for Rs. 5000 agreeing to pay within 30 days
  • Day 3:  Inventory costing Rs. 1500 was sold for Rs. 2200 which was received in cash
  • Day 4: inventory costing Rs. 1700 was sold for Rs. 2600 the customers agreeing to pay Rs. 2600 in 40 days
  • Day 5:  The store purchased a one year fire insurance policy for Rs 1200 by paying cash
  • Day 6: the store purchased two plots of land of equal size for a total worth of Rs. 240000.  It paid Rs. 10000 in cash and gave a 10 year mortgage bond for Rs. 230000
  • Day 7:  The store sold one of the t2wo plots of land for Rs. 120000.  It received Rs. 5000 in cash and in addition the buyer assumed Rs. 115000 of the mortgage that is Music Mart Inc, became no longer responsible for this behalf
  • Day 8:  business received a bonafide offer of Rs. 20000 for the business
  • Day 9: Ben withdrew Rs. 1000 cash from the stores bank account for his personal use.
  • Day 10: Ben took merchandise costing Rs. 750 from the store’s bank account for his personal use
  • Day 12 Ben learned that the individual who purchased the land above subsequently sold it for Rs. 140000.  The plot still owned by Ben merchant was identical in value with this other plot.

Make assumptions if necessary.

 

 

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