Explore topic-wise MCQs in General Management.

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1401.

_ System in an organization that articulates purpose, mission and core values of a company is classified as$?

A. interactive control system
B. belief system
C. boundary system
D. diagnostic control system
Answer» C. boundary system
1402.

_ If budgeted contribution margin for budgeted and actual sales mix are $35000 and $27000, then sales mix variance will be$?

A. $8,000
B. $80,000
C. $62,000
D. $35,000
Answer» B. $80,000
1403.

_ All choices for decision that are easily available to managers are classified as$?

A. outcome
B. actions
C. events
D. distribution
Answer» C. events
1404.

_ An estimated price, which is expected to be paid by customers for particular market offering is classified as$?

A. target price
B. target cost
C. outsource price
D. off shore price
Answer» B. target cost
1405.

_ If total production is 25000 units and target annual operating income is $300000 then target operating income per unit would be$?

A. $15
B. $12
C. $16
D. $18
Answer» C. $16
1406.

_ In customer cost hierarchy, costs of individual customer support activities are classified as$?

A. discretionary channel costs
B. corporate-sustaining costs
C. distribution-channel costs
D. customer-sustaining costs
Answer» E.
1407.

_ Division of all costs related to customers on basis of different cost allocation bases or cost drivers is called$?

A. customer cost hierarchy
B. customer profitability hierarchy
C. treasury costing hierarchy
D. partial costing hierarchy
Answer» B. customer profitability hierarchy
1408.

_ If target net income is $9600 and tax rate is 40%, then target operating income would be$?

A. $10,000
B. $12,000
C. $16,000
D. $14,000
Answer» D. $14,000
1409.

_ If gross margin is $9000 and cost of goods sold is $8000 then revenue will be$?

A. $1,000
B. -$1000
C. $17,000
D. -$17000
Answer» D. -$17000
1410.

_ Gross margin is added into cost of sold goods is to calculate the$?

A. revenues
B. operating leverage
C. contribution margin
D. operating margin
Answer» B. operating leverage
1411.

_ If total units of product A, B and C are as 200,300 and 400 respectively then sales mix would be$?

A. 100 units
B. 900 units
C. 400 units
D. 500 units
Answer» C. 400 units
1412.

_ Difference between budgeted contribution margin for actual sales mix and budgeted sales mix is called$?

A. sales quantity variance
B. cost mix variance
C. volume mix variance
D. sales mix variance
Answer» E.
1413.

_ In customer cost hierarchy, costs of all activities incurred to sell group of units to end consumers are classified as$?

A. customer sustaining costs
B. customer output unit-level costs
C. customer batch-level costs
D. corporate sustaining costs
Answer» D. corporate sustaining costs
1414.

_ If an actual result is $50000 and static budget variance is $25000, then static budget amount will be$?

A. $75,000
B. $25,000
C. $35,000
D. $45,000
Answer» C. $35,000
1415.

_ Flexible budget variance is subtracted from actual cost to calculate$?

A. flexible budget cost
B. flexible investment cost
C. static budget cost
D. static variable cost
Answer» B. flexible investment cost
1416.

_ Budgeted input quantity is added in to efficiency variance to calculate$?

A. actual input quantity
B. actual output quantity
C. actual input price
D. actual output price
Answer» B. actual output quantity
1417.

_ If a company uses large quantity of input than budgeted quantity for output level, then company is known to be$?

A. variable growth of company
B. constant growth of company
C. company is inefficient
D. company is efficient
Answer» D. company is efficient
1418.

_ Performance is evaluated only on basis of price variance, if performance evaluation is$?

A. positive
B. negative
C. zero
D. one
Answer» B. negative
1419.

_ If input used in manufacturing is smaller in quantity and output produced is greater in quantity, this will be categorized under$?

A. lesser effective
B. greater efficiency
C. smaller efficiency
D. greater effective
Answer» C. smaller efficiency
1420.

_ An unfavourable variance in static budget is also known as$?

A. favourable variance
B. adverse variance
C. adverse standard deviation
D. unfavourable variance
Answer» C. adverse standard deviation
1421.

_ If actual payment to labour is $1200 and budgeted rate is $1000, then labour price variance would be$?

A. less than zero
B. equal to zero
C. favourable
D. unfavourable
Answer» E.
1422.

_ Buying of goods or services from suppliers or vendors of some other country instead of local supplier is classified as$?

A. outsourcing
B. insourcing
C. idle sourcing
D. sunk sourcing
Answer» B. insourcing
1423.

_ Some of methods used for determining transfer prices are$?

A. market-based transfer prices
B. cost-based transfer prices
C. negotiated transfer prices
D. all of above
Answer» E.
1424.

_ Decision making methods, used for subunits of company are highly interdependent on each other is called$?

A. incongruent decision making
B. functional decision making
C. congruent decision making
D. duplication decision making
Answer» B. functional decision making
1425.

_ Minimum freedom for managers and maximum constraints are main features of$?

A. total autonomy
B. total centralization
C. total decentralization
D. total congruency
Answer» C. total decentralization
1426.

_ If number of processes, in which employees who can make decisions are 20 and number of processes are 50, then employee empowerment ratio will be$?

A. 0.9
B. 0.4
C. 0.3
D. 0.8
Answer» C. 0.3
1427.

_ Statistical quality control is also called$?

A. statistical process control
B. statistical failure control
C. statistical control of prevention cost
D. statistical control of sunk cost
Answer» B. statistical failure control
1428.

_ Carrying costs of inventories and price discounts related to delayed deliveries are examples of$?

A. measures of growth and learning
B. measures of internal business processes
C. customer measures
D. financial measures
Answer» E.
1429.

_ If total number of employees surveyed are 200 and employees that indicate higher rating for satisfaction are 195, then employee satisfaction would be$?

A. 94.00%
B. 93.00%
C. 95.00%
D. 97.50%
Answer» E.
1430.

_ Graph which plots series of successive observations of specific procedure, operation or step at regular time intervals is called$?

A. relevant costing diagram
B. cause and effect diagram
C. control chart
D. pareto diagram
Answer» D. pareto diagram
1431.

__Fixed cost is divided to contribution margin to calculate__

A. breakeven revenue
B. total revenue
C. fixed revenue
D. variable revenue
Answer» B. total revenue
1432.

__Total revenues is subtracted from total variable costs to calculate__

A. revenue margin
B. variable margin
C. contribution margin
D. divisor margin
Answer» D. divisor margin
1433.

__If contribution margin per unit is $40 per unit and selling price is $200, then contribution margin percentage would be__

A. 20.00%
B. 10.00%
C. 22.00%
D. 16.00%
Answer» B. 10.00%
1434.

__Selling price is multiplied to quantity of sold units to calculate__

A. revenues
B. sold quantity
C. sold price
D. bulk price
Answer» B. sold quantity
1435.

__Quantity of manufactured goods are sold at which total cost equal, is known as__

A. breakeven point
B. cost point
C. revenue point
D. quantity point
Answer» B. cost point
1436.

__System in an organization, which defines behavior standards and code of conduct is known as__

A. interactive control system
B. belief system
C. boundary system
D. diagnostic control system
Answer» D. diagnostic control system
1437.

__An effect of fixed cost to change in operating income is classified as__

A. uncertain margin
B. certain margin
C. operating margin
D. operating leverage
Answer» E.
1438.

__If gross margin is $2000 and revenue is $5000, then cost of goods sold would be__

A. -$8000
B. $3,000
C. -$3000
D. $8,000
Answer» C. -$3000
1439.

__If cost of goods sold is $8000, gross margin is $5000 then revenue will be__

A. $13,000
B. -$13000
C. $3,000
D. -$3000
Answer» B. -$13000
1440.

__If fixed cost is $30000, contribution margin percentage is 40%, then breakeven revenue will be__

A. $120,000
B. $75,000
C. $12,000
D. $175,000
Answer» C. $12,000
1441.

__Contribution per unit is $1200 and number of units sold is $80, then contribution margin would be__

A. $9,650
B. $96,000
C. $15
D. $9,600
Answer» C. $15
1442.

__Formal information systems, used in organizations to focus company's learning and attention given to most important strategic issues are known as__

A. interactive control system
B. belief systems
C. boundary systems
D. diagnostic control systems
Answer» B. belief systems
1443.

__If contribution margin percentage is 30%, selling price is $5000, then contribution margin per unit will be__

A. $900
B. $1,200
C. $1,500
D. $1,600
Answer» D. $1,600
1444.

__Type of outcomes that can be measured in numerical terms are classified as__

A. qualitative factors
B. quantitative factors
C. expected factors
D. recorded factors
Answer» C. expected factors
1445.

__Type of outcomes, which can never be measured in numerical terms in books of accounts are classified as__

A. expected factors
B. recorded factors
C. qualitative factors
D. quantitative factors
Answer» D. quantitative factors
1446.

__Difference of cost, which occurs while considering alternatives can be classified as__

A. dependent cost
B. independent cost
C. incremental cost
D. differential cost
Answer» E.
1447.

__Difference that exists between total revenues, can be earned from two different alternatives is termed as__

A. independent revenue
B. incremental revenue
C. differential revenue
D. dependent revenue
Answer» D. dependent revenue
1448.

__Kind of costs that has been occurred in past are also known as__

A. unrecorded costs
B. recorded costs
C. sunk costs
D. bunked costs
Answer» D. bunked costs
1449.

__Major influential factors on supply and demand include__

A. customers
B. costs
C. competitors
D. all of above
Answer» B. costs
1450.

__Major approaches to make decisions about pricing include__

A. market based
B. sunk cost
C. cost based
D. both a and c
Answer» E.