Under the COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework, who is responsible for risk management?
Answer(s): A
Which of the following are true of interest rate swaps?
Answer(s): A,B,D
Q is a company which generates electricity from alternative energy sources. It has just begun constructing a wind farm near a well-known beauty spot. The project has been controversial as campaigners say it will be noisy and unsightly.The campaigners took legal action but lost the case. Some of them have started a campaign of direct action against Q and are physically blocking roads leading to the site and attempting to intimidate Q's staff.Q has hired a security company to help it to protect its staff. In relation to the ethics of this scenario, which of the following statements are valid?
Answer(s): A,C
You are a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and you have recently taken up the position of Sales Manager with a company that is facing financial difficulties. The company's terms include a commitment to maintain specified profitability, liquidity and solvency measures; failure to do so would render bank loans immediately repayable. The draft financial statements show that the company has not succeeded in complying with all of these requirements.The financial results are very dependent on various estimates such as receivables impairments. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has suggested that these be recalculated so as to bring the financial results within the requirements of the bank. He has asked you to sign pre-dated internal documentation which would imply that, as Sales Manager, you initiated these changes in the belief that they would enhance the accuracy of the Financial Statements.Which TWO of the following courses of action available to you would be ethically acceptable according to the CIMA Code of Ethics?
Answer(s): A,D
Kate is a management accountant. Her immediate superior plans to apply for a promotion and his strongest competitor is the sales manager. Kate's superior has ordered her to set unattainable sales targets in a sales budget in order to reduce the sales manager's promotion prospects. He told her not to tell anybody.Kate asked the finance director for advice. He told her that he wanted her immediate superior to get the promotion and so she should set the unattainable budget as instructed.Kate set the budget as instructed.Which THREE fundamental ethical principles has Kate breached?
Answer(s): A,B,E
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