MS-04 - Accounting and Finance for Managers

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ASSIGNMENT

Course Code                                                               :             MS-04
Course Title                                                                 :             Accounting and Finance for Managers
Assignment Code                                                       :             MS-04/TMA/SEM-I/2017
Coverage                                                                     :             All Blocks

Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 30th April, 2017 to the coordinator of your study center.

Question.1. “ Accountancy is an Information System” do you agree? Substantiate your answer with reasons. How does an Accountant help in planning and controlling a large commercial organisation? Explain.

Answer:Accounting is a service activity. Its function is to provide qualitative information, primarily financial in nature, about economic entities and that is intended to be useful in making economic decisions. It is universally accepted that making available the qualitative accounting information is an objective as these are the basis to make decision by its users. The accounting information is expected by its users is provided through financial statements. We can say that accounting information refers to the financial statements so generated are the Income statements, that is, profited loss profit and loss account and position



Balance Sheet as on 31  March, 2017
Liabilities
Rs
Assets

Rs
Proprietors Capital
1,00,000
Cash

20,500
Outstanding Liabilities
17,000
Stock

50,500


Sundry debtors

26,000


Furniture
25,000



Dep
5,000
20,000

1,17,000


1,17,000
Sales and salaries for different months are expected to be as under:
Months
Sales
Salaries
April
80,000
3,000
May
52,000
2,500
June
50,000
35,000
July
75,000
4,000
August
90,000
4,000
Sepetmebr
35,000
3,000
October
25,000
3,000

The other expenses per month are: Rent Rs. 1,000, Depreciation Rs. 1,000, Misc. Expenses Rs. 500 and Commission 1% of sales.

Of the sales, 80% is on credit and 20% for cash. 70% of the credit sales are collected in one month and the balance in two months. Debtors on March 31, 2017 represent Rs. 6,000 in respect of sales of February and Rs. 20,000 in respect of sales of March. There are no debt losses. Gross profit on sales on an average is 30%. Purchases equal to the next month’s sales are made every month and they are paid during the month in which they are made. The firm maintains a minimum cash balance of Rs. 10,000. Cash deficiencies are made up bank loans which are repaid at the earliest availableopportunity and cash in excess of Rs. 15,000 is invested in securities (Interest on bank loans and securities is to be ignored). Outstanding liabilities remain unchanged.

Answer:


Question.3. Taking a suitable example and explain how the semi-variable costs will be segregated into fixed and variable using the Scattergraph Method.

Answer:Several methods are used for segregating semi-variable costs into fixed and variable. There are four major techniques that are found in practice and they may be listed as follows:

1.       High and Low Points Methods:This approach considers the difference in total cost between two different volumes, and divides the incremental cost by the volume. As the words ‘high’ and ‘low’ imply, the two levels of volume chosen are the

Question.4. Aditi Ltd. is considering the selection of one a pair of mutually exclusive investment projects. Both would involve purchase of machinery with a life of 5 years.

Project 1 would generate annual cash flows (receipts less payments) of Rs. 2,00,000; the machinery would cost Rs. 5,56,000 and have a scrap value of Rs. 56,000.

Project 2 would generate annual cash flows of Rs.5,00,000; the machinery would cost Rs. 16,16,000 and have a scrap value of Rs. 4,31,000.

Company use the straight line method for providing depreciation. Its cost of capital is 15% per annum. Assume that annual cash flows arise on the anniversaries of the initial outlay, that there will be no price changes over the project lives and that acceptance of one of the projects will not alter the required amount of working capital.

You are required to:

(a) Calculate for each project:
(i) the accounting rate or return (ratio, over project life, of average accounting profit to average book value of investment) to nearest 1%.
(ii) the net present value
(iii) the internal rate or return (D.C.F. yield) to nearest 1%, and
(iv) thepay back period to one decimal place, and

(b) State which project you would select for acceptance, if either, giving reasons for your choice of criterion to guide the decision. Ignore taxation.

Answer: N





Question.5. “ Dividend can be paid only out of profits”. Explain this statement and also discuss your role as a Finance Management in matters of dividend policy?

Answer:Dividend decision is highly important for a firm.  It is required to plan to maximize the owner’s wealth.  It is the responsibility of the management to make the owner aware of the objectives and the implications of the dividend policy so that the market reaction is favourable.  It is a continuous activity spread over a

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