[单选题]18 Which of the following statements about accounting ratios and their interpretation are correct?

1 A low-geared company is more able to survive a downturn in profit than a highly-geared company. 2 If a company has a high price earnings ratio, this will often indicate that the market expects its profits to rise. 3 All companies should try to achieve a current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) of 2:1.

正确答案 ：C

1 and 2 only

[单选题]A company predicted that the learning rate for production of a new product would be 80%. The actual learning rate was 75%. The following possible reasons were stated for this:

正确答案 ：G

(i) only

解析：

The learning rate was actually better than expected and only (i) could cause it to improve.

[单选题]Hindberg is a car retailer. On 1 April 2014, Hindberg sold a car to Latterly on the following terms:

正确答案 ：F

$24,150

解析：

At 31 March 2015, the deferred consideration of $12,650 would need to be discounted by 10% for one year to $11,500 (effectively deferring a finance cost of $1,150). The total amount credited to profit or loss would be $24,150 (12,650 + 11,500).

[单选题]In 2014 Mr Yuan inherited an estate of RMB2 million from his uncle who had died two months earlier.

正确答案 ：B

The estate income is not taxable

[单选题]C Co uses material B, which has a current market price of $0·80 per kg. In a linear program, where the objective is to maximise profit, the shadow price of material B is $2 per kg. The following statements have been made:

正确答案 ：I

(i) and (iv)

解析：

Statement (ii) is wrong as it reflects the common misconception that the shadow price is the maximum price which should be paid, rather than the maximum extra over the current purchase price.

Statement (iii) is wrong but could be thought to be correct if (ii) was wrongly assumed to be correct.

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