Assessment Test 23

Which of the products shown had the lowest value of sales per non-European store and which had the highest value of sales per European store?

What is the discrepancy (in $) between the AE25 price per product unit in non-European stores compared to European stores. Use an exchange rate of €0.80 to the $.

This month’s combined target for non-European and European sales of AE25 is €40,000. Using an exchange rate of €0.75 to the $, what is the difference between the sales values shown and this target?

Combining European and non-European sales, which products generated the highest number of product units sold? Use the non-promotional sales prices shown.

Given that a customer uses the promotional offers shown, put the 5 products sold in non-European stores into order of increasing promotional price per unit (starting with the cheapest).

On the previous day, the value of the shares held in the Emerging Markets Fund was 0.5% lower than the values given here. What was the previous day’s value of shares in the Emerging Markets Fund?

Which out of the Emerging Markets, UK and Far Eastern funds hold the lowest value of Cash and the lowest value of Bonds?

Which equity fund has the highest average value per individual investor?

Which of the components of the UK and US equity funds have the highest and the lowest value?

Which equity fund holding(s) hold less than double the number of Shares compared to Bonds?

Averaged across the Manufacturing Plants, put the average values for each of the maintenance costs in decreasing size order, starting with the highest.

For which manufacturing plant(s) are the Administration: Rent costs in the ratio 12:5?

For the Glasgow manufacturing plant, which maintenance cost(s) represent approximately 7% of the total costs?

What is the average annual cost for servicing each of the 5 manufacturing plants (assume 4 weeks in a month)?

Which two manufacturing plants have the same total maintenance costs per week?

Which garden furniture manufacturer has 22.5% of the UK market in terms of 2010 annual sales?

Manufacturers B and D each aim to increase their annual sales from 2010 to 2011 by a quarter. Manufacturers A, C and E each aim to grow their annual sales by a fifth. Assuming all companies meet these targets, what will be 2011’s total furniture manufacturer sales (to the nearest £million)?

Which region showed the second largest absolute difference in Company C sales between 2009 and 2010?

What is the percentage increase in Company C’s total sales for 2010 compared its 2009 total sales?

If Company C’s sales in 2009 were in the ratio of 8:7 for online: offline sales, what were the offline sales (to the nearest £1,000)?

Assume that the percentage change trends between the Current Year and Next Year continue at the same rate for a subsequent year. What’s the subsequent year’s average entry level graduate salary (to the nearest £500)?

Year 3 a company paid the average entry graduate starting salaries when recruiting 15 graduates for a consultancy role and 6 graduates for a research role. What was the average salary per recruited graduate?

Which sector has seen the smallest percentage increase in graduate entry level salary between Year 2 and the Current Year?

The current year’s entry level graduate salaries for working in logistics and retail are £25,000 and £24,000 respectively. If these sectors experience the same percentage change as the legal sector over the same period, what’s next year’s predicted entry level graduate salary in the logistics and retail sectors (to the nearest £100)?

Which of the 5 sectors had the lowest difference in entry level graduate salary between Year 3 and the Current Year?

Which competitor(s) has less than 100,000 consumers per day (assume 30 days per month)?

Which competitor has the lowest average number of staff per country of operation?

If Competitors B to E make up 85% of the business sector in which they operate (based upon operating profits), approximately what are the total operating profits of the other companies in the same business sector?

Competitor B has an additional business that generates an additional 8% to the Retail Sales shown. Competitors A and C have additional businesses that generate 7% and 4% additional revenue respectively. What’s the total of these additional sales streams for Competitors A, B and C combined (to the nearest £million)?

Which two Competitors average the same approximate number of customers per country of operation?