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The statement of profit or loss for PQ, ST and AB for the year ended 31 December 20X0 are shown below:
1. PQ acquired 80% of its subsidiary, ST, on 1 January 20X0 and 40% of its associate, AB, on 1 September 20X0.
2. Since acquistion PQ has sold goods to ST and AB for $20,000 and $30,000 respectively. At the year end both ST and AB have 50% of these goods remaining in inventory. PQ uses a mark-up of 20% on all of its sales.
3. Since acquisition the goodwill in respect of ST has been impaired by $8,000 and the investment in AB has been impaired by $2,000.
4. PQ uses the fair value method for non-controlling interest at acquisition.
Calculate the profit attributable to the non-controlling interests disclosed in PQ ' s consolidated statement of profit or loss for the year ended 31 December 20X0.
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.
Below are extracts from LLL ' s financial statements for the year ended 31 December 20X2.
Depreciation of $25,000 was charged on properly, plant and equipment in the year and there were no disposals
What is the cash generated from operations for inclusion in LLL ' s statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 December 20X2?
The following information is extracted from QQ ' s statement of financial position at 31 March:
Included in other payables is interest payable of $80,000 at 31 March 20X2 and $73,000 at 31 March 20X1.
The following information if included within QQ ' s statement of profit or loss for the year ended 31 March 20X2.
Included within finance cost is $124,000 which relates to interest paid on a finance lease. QQ includes finance lease interest within financing activities on its statement of cash flows.
QQ is preparing its statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 March 20X2.
What cash outflow figure should be included for corporate income tax paid within the cash flow from operating activities section of the statement?
Give your answer to the nearest $000.
MNO is a commercial bank. One of MNO ' s clients is FGH, a trading company which sells goods to PQR.
MNO is asked to draw up an instrument between FGH and PQR in respect of goods sold FGH then asks MNO to sell this instrument on its behalf in the discount market MNO does this and pays the proceeds to FGH.
What source of short-term finance is being described here?
YZ has $40,000 of plant and machinery which was acquired on 1 June 20X1.Tax depreciation rates on plant and machinery are 25% reducing balance. All plant and machinery was sold for $24,000 on 1 June 20X3.
Calculate the tax balancing allowance or charge on disposal for the year ended 31 May 20X3 and state the effect on the taxable profit.
Mr K is being pressured by his manager to change figures in his report so that it will improve his manager ' s bonus.
His manager has promised Mr K a promotion if he agrees to do this.
What threats is Mr K facing?
Which of the following is NOT a primary need for regulating financial reporting information of incorporated entities?
An entity purchased an asset for $375,000 on 1 November 20X0 incurring legal fees of $33,000. Improvements were made to the asset for $65,000 on 1 December 20X2 which qualified as capital expenditure under the local tax rules. The entity also incurred repair costs on the asset on 1 February 20X3 amounting to $10,000.
The asset was sold for $680,000 on 1 December 20X5 incurring allowable costs on disposal of $15,000.
Indexation on the purchase cost and the improvement are allowable.
The index increased by 20% between November 20X0 and December 20X5,15% between December 20X2 and December 20X5 and 10% between February 20X3 and December 20X5
Calculate the chargeable gain on the disposal of the asset on 1 December 20X5.
Which of the following correctly identifies the order of the steps involved in the development of an International Financial Reporting Standard prior to it being issued?
Identify from the list below which items can be recognised as assets within the financial statements of an entity in accordance with IAS 38 Intangible Assets. Place either yes or no as appropriate against each item.
According to IAS 21 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates, an entity should determine its functional currency.
Which of the following is NOT a factor that should be considered by an entity when determining its functional currency?
ABC has the following working capital ratios at 31 December 20X2:
During the year ended 31 December 20X4 credit purchases were $1,700,000 and at 31 December 20X4 the outstanding trade payables balance was $340,000
Calculate the working capital cycle for ABC.
Give your answer to the nearest whole number of days and assume there are 365 days in a year.
Extreme nepotism within Company E shows a failure to correctly observe which of the following principles of corporate governance?
OP has five main geographic segments and reports segmental information in accordance with IFRS 8 Operating Segments.
Which THREE of the following would be regarded as operating segments of OP in accordance with IFRS 8?
The following information has been extracted from GHI ' s statement of financial position:
Which of the following is the total cash flow for working capital changes to be recorded in GHI ' s statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 December 20X5?
The following information is extracted from the trial balance of YY at 30 September 20X3.
i. Included in revenue is a refundable deposit of $20 million for a sales transaction that is due to take place on 14 October 20X3.
ii. The cost of closing inventory is $28 million, however, the net realisable value is estimated at $25 million.
iii. The interest free loan was obtained on 1 January 20X3. The loan is repayable in 12 quarterly installments starting on 31 March 20X3. All installments to date have been paid on time.
Calculate the figure that should be included within non-current liabilities in YY ' s statement of financial position at 30 September 20X3 in respect of both of the loans outstanding at the year end?
Give your answer to the nearest $ million.
The accounting profit before tax of an entity was $243,200 for the year ended 31 July 20X4.
The accounting profit included disallowable income from government grants of $48,000 and disallowable expenditure of $25,600 on entertaining expenses.
The entity also paid a $40,000 dividend to shareholders. The tax rates for the country were as follows:
Calculate the tax the entity is due to pay for the year ending 31 July 20X4.
Which THREE of the following matters should an entity consider when determining the credit terms granted to a customer?
Statements of financial position for FG, IJ and KL at 31 December 20X5 include the following balances:
FG acquired 90% of IJ ' s equity shares for $358,000 on 1 July 20X5 when IJ ' s retained earnings were $98,000.
FG acquired 100% of KL ' s equity shares for $360,000 on 1 January 20X5 when KL ' s retained earnings were $155,000.
FG used the proportion of net assets method to value non-controlling interests at acquisition.
KL sold a piece of land to FG for $130,000 on 1 September 20X5. At the date of transfer the land had a carrying value of $50,000.
The management of FG expect KL to make profits in the future and no impairment ot its goodwill was proposed at 31 December 20X5.
Calculate the amount of retained earnings that will be included in FG ' s consolidated statement of financial position as at 31 December 20X5.
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.
For the year ending 31 March 20X2, MN made an accounting profit of $120,000. Profit included $8,500 of political donations which are disallowable for tax purposes and $8,000 of income exempt from taxation.
MN has $15,000 of plant and machinery which was acquired on 1 April 20X0 and purchased a new machine costing $25,000 on 1 April 20X1. This new machine is entitled to first year allowances of 100% instead of the usual tax depreciation of 20% reducing balance. All plant and machinery is depreciated in the accounts at 10% on cost.
MN also has a building that cost $120,000 on 1 April 20X0 and is depreciated in the accounts at 4% on a straight line basis. Tax depreciation is calculated at 3% on a straight line basis.
Calculate the taxable profit.
Give your answer to the nearest $.
EF has been offering its customers a 60 day credit period, but now wants to improve its cash flow.
EF is proposing to offer a 2% discount for payment in 15 days.
Assume a 365 day year and an invoice value of $100.
Which of the following is the effective annual interest rate EF will incur for this action?
Which one of the following is NOT a step in the development of an International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS)?
AA manufactures computers. These are sold to BB at $100 a computer plus a 5% sales tax. BB subsequently sells the computers to CC for $200 a computer plus a 5% sales tax. C sells the computers to customers at $300 a computer plus a 5% sales tax.
The total tax received by the tax authority is $30.
Which type of tax is described above?
In Country X corporate income tax is levied on profits as follows:
Which of the following describes the tax rate structure in Country X?
AAA has the following working capital ratios at 30 March 20X4:
During the year ended 30 March 20X4 credit purchases were $3,600 and at 30 March 20X4 the outstanding trade payables amounted to $522.
The year ended 30 March 20X4 was not a leap year.
Calculate the working capital cycle for AAA.
Give your answer to one decimal place.
CDO is an entity that is preparing to apply to its local stock market for a listing. CDO is currently run by a board of ten directors, each of whom manages a department of CDO. The board is chaired by Ms E who is also CDO ' s Chief Executive Officer.
Which TWO of the following actions would assist CDO to meet corporate governance regulations?
On 31 March 20X1 OP decided to sell a property. On that date this property was correctly classified as held for sale in accordance with IFRS 5 Non-Current Assets Held For Sale And Discontinued Operations.
In the draft financial statements of OP for the year ended 31 October 20X1 this property has been included at its fair value, which was $520,000 lower than its carrying value. This has resulted in a charge to profit or loss, the result of which is that the draft financial statements show a loss of $450,000 for the year to 31 October 20X1. When the management board of OP reviewed the draft financial statements it was unhappy about the loss and decided that the property should be reclassified as a non-current asset and reinstated to its original value, despite the fact that its plans for the property had not changed.
In accordance with the ethical principle of professional competence and due care, which THREE of the following statements explain how this property should be accounted for in the financial statements of OP for the year ended 31 October 20X1?
Which of the following would NOT be assessed for tax under a Pay-As-You-Earn system?
OP is considering investing in government bonds. The current price of a $100 bond with 8 years to maturity is $88.
The bonds have a coupon rate of 6% and repay face value of $100 at the end of the 8 years.
Calculate the yield to maturity.
Give your answer to one decimal place.
The following information relates to AA.
Extract of Trial Balance at 31 December 20X4;
Notes
(i) Inventory at 31 December 20X4 was valued at cost at $30.
(ii) The loan which was received on 1 July 20X4 is repayable in 20X9.
(iii) Corporate income tax represents an over-provision of tax for the year ended 31 December 20X3. AA reported a loss for tax purposes for the year ended 31 December 20X4 and a tax refund is expected amounting to $20.
(iv) Cost of sales, administration and distribution costs need to be adjusted for the following:
What figures should be entered in the Statement of Profit or Loss for the year ended 31 December 20X4 in relation to Administration and Distribution costs?
Country A permits the following deductions in an entity ' s annual corporate income tax return in relation to entertaining expenses and gifts;
1 Employee entertaining up to a value of $150 a head
2 Entertaining of overseas customers.
3 Individual gifts not to exceed $10 in value
Which THREE of the following actions would be regarded as tax evasion?
Which THREE of the following are costs that a business might incur as a result of holding insufficient inventory of raw materials?
Statements of financial position for YZ, BC and DE at 31 March 20X2 include the following balances:
YZ purchased 90% of BC ' s equity shares for $508,000 on 1 January 20X2. On 1 January 20X2 BC ' s retained earnings were $183,000. YZ uses the proportion of net assets method to value non-controlling interest at acquisition.
YZ purchased 30% of DE ' s equity shares on 1 April 20X1 for $112,000. DE ' s retained earnings at 1 April 20X1 were $88,000.
On 1 February 20X2 YZ sold goods to BC for $28,000 at a mark up of 25% on cost. All the goods were still in BC ' s inventory at 31 March 20X2.
Calculate the value of inventory that will be included in YZ ' s consolidated statement of financial position at 31 March 20X2.
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.
The following data has been extracted from GH ' s accounting records:
What is GH ' s average inventory days for the year ended 31 March 20X3?
On 1 May 20X8 DEF enters into a contract to lease plant with a fair value of $200,000. Annual lease payments of $50,000 are to be paid in advance and DEF incurred direct costs to arrange the lease of S2.000 The present value of future lease payments at 1 May 20X8 is $190,000.
What is the amount to be recognised as a right-of-use asset on 1 May 20X8?
Which of the following is NOT a principle in the CIMA Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants?
In 20X4, DEF closed its business having made a trading loss of $160,000. In DEF ' s country of residence, trading losses may be carried back three years on a LIFO basis.
The profits for the last four years of trading were:
What are the taxable profits or losses for years 20X1 and 20X2?
The external auditors have completed their audit and have discovered a material but not pervasive error in the financial statements of JK.
The directors of JK have refused to change the financial statements.
What type of modified audit report should be issued?
EF is a large manufacturing entity with several of its manufacturing sites in different locations. Currently all of the sites have a local procurement department. EF ' s board are looking to implement a centralized purchasing system.
Match the tokens according to whether you believe each statement is either an advantage or disadvantage of implementing a centralized purchasing system for EF.
LM received notification on 10 November 20X4 from one of its customers stating they had ceased trading as they had gone into liquidation. The balance outstanding at 31 October 20X4 was $150,000.
In accordance with IAS 10 Events after the Reporting Date this event will be treated as:
BCD ' s finance cost for the year ended 30 June 20X6 in its statement of profit or loss is $198,000. BCD ' s statement of financial position is as follows:
How much will be included in BCD ' s statement of cash flows for interest paid in the year ended 31 December 20X6?
Give your answer to The nearest $.
There are two main approaches that a country could adopt in respect of corporate governance regulation - a rules based approach and a principles based approach. Match the following statements with the appropriate approach by placing either rules based or principles based against each of them.
030d49a3-3c4c-45ad-9aee-710302f219f1: Entities normally pay taxation on their worldwide income in the country in which they are deemed to be resident.
Residency is determined by the
An entity bought a capital item for $110,000 on 1 March 20X4 incurring legal fees at the date of purchase of $2,500.
On 1 May 20X4 additional costs classified as capital expenditure by the tax rules of the country of $25,000 were incurred in respect of the asset. On 1 June 20X4 repairs not classified as capital expenditure were incurred at a cost of $15,000.
The asset was sold for $250,000 on 30 November 20X8 and costs to sell were incurred of $4,300.
Calculate the chargeable gain on the disposal.
Give your answer to the nearest $.
BCD owns an item of plant which cost $20,000 and at the time of purchase was assessed to have a useful economic life of 8 years and a residual value of $2,000
The carrying amount of the plant at 1 January 20X8 is $11,000. On that date BCD ' s directors estimate that the plant ' s remaining useful life is now 6 years The residual value remains unchanged at $2,000
What is the depreciation charge for this plant for the year ended 31 December 20X8?
Give your answer to the nearest $.
KL has just completed their inventory count and has ascertained that the cost value of the inventory is $460,000; this was made up of 10,000 units of component part FF.
A week before the year end the FF components were moved to a temporary warehouse.
Two weeks later they were inspected and found to have been damaged by the damp conditions in the temporary warehouse.
Of the 10,000 units 2,500 of them were damaged. After remedial work of $5.00 per unit KL anticipates they will be able to sell the damaged parts for $32.00 per unit.
What is the value for closing inventory to be included in the financial statements of KL?
Give your answer to the nearest $.
LM is preparing its cash forecast for the next three months.
Which of the following items should be left out of its calculations?
In accordance with IFRS 3 Business Combinations, acquisition accounting of an investment in another entity within the consolidated statement of financial position means that the:
The statement of profit or loss for PQ, ST and AB for the year ended 31 December 20X0 are shown below:
1. PQ acquired 80% of its subsidiary, ST, on 1 January 20X0 and 40% of its associate, AB, on 1 September 20X0.
2. Since acquistion PQ has sold goods to ST and AB for $20,000 and $30,000 respectively. At the year end both ST and AB have 50% of these goods remaining in inventory. PQ uses a mark-up of 20% on all of its sales.
3. Since acquisition the goodwill in respect of ST has been impaired by $8,000 and the investment in AB has been impaired by $2,000.
4. PQ uses the fair value method for non-controlling interest at acquisition.
What is the value of the unrealized profit in inventory adjustment required to inventory in PQ ' s consolidated statement of financial position at 31 December 20X0?
The financial statements of JK for the year ended 31 August 20X4 were approved on 10 November 20X4.
Within these financial statements which of the following would have been treated as a non-adjusting event in accordance with IAS 10 Events After the Reporting Period?
Company Y is using some of the money from a share issue to purchase a new office building. The company is also using some of the money to purchase inventories. Which method of financing is this?
Which of the following is correct?
The primary purpose of a cash budget prepared on a monthly basis is to determine:
The following information is extracted from the statement of financial position for ZZ at 31 March 20X3:
Included within cost of sales in the statement of profit or loss for the year ended 31 March 20X3 is $20 million relating to the loss on the sale of plant and equipment which had cost $100 million in June 20X1.
Depreciation is charged on all plant and equipment at 25% on a straight line basis with a full year ' s depreciation charged in the year of acquisition and none in the year of sale.
The revaluation reserve relates to the revaluation of ZZ ' s property.
The total depreciation charge for property, plant and equipment in ZZ ' s statement of profit of loss for the year ended 31 March 20X3 is $80 million.
The corporate income tax expense in ZZ ' s statement of profit or loss for year ended 31 March 20X3 is $28 million.
ZZ is preparing its statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 March 20X3.
What figure should be included within cash flows from investing activities for the proceeds of sale of plant and equipment?
Which THREE of the following are potential implications to a manufacturing business of holding insufficient inventory of raw materials?
XYZ operates in Country A where tax rules state that entertaining costs and donations to political parties are disallowable for tax purposes.
XYZ calculated both its accounting and taxable profits for the year ended 31 December 20X2 after deducting $10,000 of entertaining costs.
It is considering what impact the ruling that " entertaining costs are disallowable for tax purposes " will have on its two profit figures.
Which of the following correctly states the impact of the ruling on the profits already calculated?
XYZ ' s accounting profit for the last reporting period is $200,000. This is after deduction of:
• Accounting depreciation of $40,000.
• Entertaining expenses of $10,000 which are disallowable for tax purposes
• Directors ' salaries of 530.000
Tax depreciation allowances of $60,000 are available and the rate of corporate income tax is 20%.
What is the corporate tax liability of XYZ for the reporting period?
The following information is extracted from QQ ' s statement of financial position at 31 March:
Included in other payables is interest payable of $80,000 at 31 March 20X2 and $73,000 at 31 March 20X1.
The following information if included within QQ ' s statement of profit or loss for the year ended 31 March 20X2.
Included within finance cost is $124,000 which relates to interest paid on a finance lease. QQ includes finance lease interest within financing activities on its statement of cash flows.
What cash outflow figure should be included as interest paid within the net cash flow from operating activities for QQ for the year ended 20X2?
Give your answer to the nearest $000.
When a trading loss is incurred by an entity, the entity may be able to claim loss relief. The way in which loss relief is claimed vanes from country to country.
Which of the following is NOT normally a way of claiming loss relief for a trading loss?
A conservative policy for financing working capital is one where short-term finance is used to fund:
During the year a piece of equipment that originally cost $96,000, with accumulated depreciation of $39,000, met the criteria of IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations to be classified as held for sale.
The equipment is being advertised for sale at $46,000 and costs of $1,000 will be incurred to enable the sale to be completed.
At what value should the equipment be included in the statement of financial position at the year end assuming that it remains unsold?
Give your answer to the nearest whole number.
XYZ is a manufacturer. Which of these should be classified as other comprehensive income in XYZs statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income for the year ended 31 December 20X4?
TESTED 02 May 2026
