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ST.

MARY’S UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES
MBA IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE PROGRAM
ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS FINAL EXAMINATION

Maximum Marks: 40
Date of Exam: 28 June 2020
Time Allowed: 16:00 to 20:00

Name: _________________________________________________ ID. No. _____________

Section: __________________________
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Part I: Essay type questions (6X5) [Attempt each question with a maximum of one page]
1. Explain the concern of public finance and fiscal policy.
2. Discuss similarities and differences of Public Finance and Private Finance
3. Ethiopian income tax system is progressive. Evaluate considering requirements of a good
tax structure.
4. Ethiopia has a relatively low tax to GDP on average in terms of African Standards and in
the world on an average basis. What could be the reasons and the implications for this
situation?
5. How do the following taxes affect the economy in the long run?
a. Income tax
b. VAT
6. Discuss how taxation may affect choice of finance and company location.

Part Two: Case Analysis questions (10Pts)


Instruction: Give clear answers for the following questions

7. During the year ended December, 2016. An Ethiopian resident company had a domestic
trading income of $180,000 and received a remittance on account of overseas profits of
$80,000 from its overseas branch. The actual profits earned by the branch for the year
ended December, 2016 are $100.000. These profits were taxed overseas at the rate of 20%.
Using the existing tax rate and the method for preventing double taxation in Ethiopia,
Calculate the corporation’s tax liability for the year.

8. Assume that a business firm "A", sells taxable supplies and makes taxable sales of Birr.80,
000, and has taxable purchases of Birr.50, 000 plus Birr.5, 000 for the same period.
And the firm has imported supplies for Birr.10, 000 and paid Birr.1, 000 as VAT on import.
For this purpose it is assumed that the firm pays Birr 15, 000 compensation to workers,
pays Birr 3, 000 in interest and rent expenses and has Birr 4, 000 as a profit for VAT
purposes.

Required:
With a 10% VAT rate, compute the firm's net VAT liability for the period.

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