Explore topic-wise MCQs in General Management.

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1501.

_An efficiency variance is 200 units and actual input quantity is 500 units, then budgeted input quantity will be$?

A. 300 units
B. 700 units
C. 800 units
D. 500 units
Answer» B. 700 units
1502.

_Price variance for direct manufacturing labour is referred as$?

A. direct variance
B. rate variance
C. labour variance
D. manufacturing variance
Answer» C. labour variance
1503.

_If price variance is $20 and budgeted input price is $70, then an actual price will be$?

A. $90
B. $50
C. -$50
D. $100
Answer» B. $50
1504.

_In budget hierarchy, material handling cost is$?

A. fixed manufacturing cost
B. batch level cost
C. per unit cost
D. factory overall cost
Answer» C. per unit cost
1505.

_First step in decision making process is to$?

A. identify problem
B. identify linear variable
C. identify certainty
D. identify multiplier
Answer» B. identify linear variable
1506.

_Book value of existing equipment is a historical cost and not necessary for deciding equipment replacement, thus it can be considered as$?

A. operating cost
B. sunk cost
C. in-house cost
D. out-house cost
Answer» C. in-house cost
1507.

_A desire to achieve a particular goal with pursuit of that goal is called$?

A. motivation
B. goal congruence
C. effort
D. autonomy
Answer» B. goal congruence
1508.

_Means of collecting and using information, to coordinate decision and planning through an organization are termed as$?

A. customer control system
B. business control system
C. financial control system
D. management control systems
Answer» E.
1509.

Number of employees that indicate high ratings of satisfaction, divided by number of surveyed employees are to calculate$?

A. employee satisfaction
B. employee turnover
C. employee training
D. employee failures
Answer» B. employee turnover
1510.

A process by which employees can make decisions is divided by total number of processes to calculate$?

A. employee turnover ratio
B. employee empowerment ratio
C. employee satisfaction ratio
D. employee training percentage
Answer» C. employee satisfaction ratio
1511.

Revenues are subtracted from cost of direct materials of sold goods is to calculate$?

A. throughput contribution
B. operating cost contribution
C. operating contribution
D. marginal contribution
Answer» B. operating cost contribution
1512.

Costs that are incurred to prevent low quality goods production are classified as$?

A. costs of quality
B. costs of learning
C. costs of reengineering
D. costs of spoilage inventory
Answer» B. costs of learning
1513.

Employees that are trained to manage bottlenecks, during production operations and employee satisfaction are related to$?

A. measures of growth and learning
B. measures of internal business processes
C. customer measures
D. financial measures
Answer» B. measures of internal business processes
1514.

Variable cost is subtracted from fixed costs to calculate$?

A. unit income
B. fixed income
C. operating income
D. marginal income
Answer» D. marginal income
1515.

If total revenue is $10000 and total variable cost is $4000, then contribution margin would be$?

A. $25,000
B. $14,000
C. $6,000
D. $8,400
Answer» C. $6,000
1516.

Difference between variable cost per unit and selling price can be classified as$?

A. contribution margin per unit
B. variable margin per unit
C. selling margin per unit
D. sale per unit
Answer» B. variable margin per unit
1517.

If fixed cost is $40000 and contribution margin per unit is $800 per unit, then breakeven of units will be$?

A. 60 units
B. 30 units
C. 50 units
D. 70 units
Answer» D. 70 units
1518.

If fixed cost is $50000 and contribution margin percentage is 20%, then breakeven revenue will be$?

A. $100,000
B. $150,000
C. $250,000
D. $225,000
Answer» D. $225,000
1519.

After-tax average cost of funds used by company in long run is equal to$?

A. weighted average cost of capital
B. economic value added
C. after-tax operating income
D. net income
Answer» B. economic value added
1520.

Type of distribution, which consists of alternative outcomes and probabilities of events is classified as$?

A. event table
B. outcome table
C. decision table
D. probability table
Answer» D. probability table
1521.

Fixed cost is divided by break-even revenues to calculate$?

A. cost margin
B. fixed margin
C. revenue margin
D. contribution margin
Answer» E.
1522.

If contribution margin percentage is 20% and selling price is $4000, then contribution margin per unit will be$?

A. $200
B. $400
C. $600
D. $800
Answer» E.
1523.

If total revenue is $9000, total variable cost is $2000, then contribution margin will be$?

A. $11,000
B. -$7000
C. $4,500
D. $7,000
Answer» E.
1524.

Contribution margin per unit is $500 per unit and breakeven per unit is $35, then fixed cost would be$?

A. $13,500
B. $14,280
C. $18,500
D. $17,500
Answer» E.
1525.

Return on sales is multiplied to investment turnover to calculate$?

A. residual income
B. return on investment
C. return on sales
D. investment turnover
Answer» C. return on sales
1526.

To calculate what, fixed cost is divided into contribution margin per unit?$?

A. fixed output
B. variable output
C. breakeven number of units
D. total number of units
Answer» D. total number of units
1527.

Costs which are related to different functions of value chain of company, such as marketing and manufacturing costs are considered as$?

A. value costs
B. future function costs
C. business function costs
D. sunk function costs
Answer» D. sunk function costs
1528.

Formal method of making choices, considering help of quantitative and qualitative analysis is classified as$?

A. quantitative analysis
B. decision method
C. qualitative method
D. linearity method
Answer» C. qualitative method
1529.

Forgone contribution of resources, in to revenues because of not using resources, in next best use is classified as$?

A. in-source cost
B. opportunity cost
C. offshore cost
D. outsource cost
Answer» C. offshore cost
1530.

Decisions made by team of individuals or single person, whether to outsource products or in-source are classified as$?

A. demand or supply decisions
B. make or buy decisions
C. relevant or irrelevant decision
D. idle or busy decisions
Answer» C. relevant or irrelevant decision
1531.

Span time from initial research and development of product till support and customer service, if not offered for that particular product will be called$?

A. product life cycle
B. life cycle budgeting
C. life cycle costing
D. target costing
Answer» B. life cycle budgeting
1532.

Technique, which accumulates and tracks revenues of business function in value chain attributed to each market offering from R&D to final customer support is called$?

A. product life cycle
B. life cycle budgeting
C. life cycle costing
D. target costing
Answer» C. life cycle costing
1533.

Systematic evaluation of value chain, to reduce costs and high quality to achieve satisfied customers is known as$?

A. reverse engineering
B. value engineering
C. target engineering
D. operation engineering
Answer» C. target engineering
1534.

An amount of additional cost incurred for any particular activity is classified as$?

A. incremental cost
B. differential cost
C. dependent cost
D. independent cost
Answer» B. differential cost
1535.

Standard input allows one unit, to be divided by standard cost per output unit for variable direct cost input, to calculate$?

A. standard price per input unit
B. standard price per output unit
C. standard cost per input unit
D. standard cost per output unit
Answer» B. standard price per output unit
1536.

Method, which calculates time to recoup initial investment of project in form of expected cash flows is known as$?

A. net value cash flow method
B. payback method
C. single cash flow method
D. lean cash flow method
Answer» C. single cash flow method
1537.

Capital budgeting method to analyze information of financials include$?

A. internal rate of return
B. accrual accounting rate of return
C. net present value
D. all of above
Answer» E.
1538.

Rate of required return to cover risk of investment in absence of inflation is classified as$?

A. real rate of return
B. required rate of return
C. nominal rate of return
D. none of above
Answer» B. required rate of return
1539.

Working capital cash outflow, cash outflow to buy machine and cash inflow from machine are examples of$?

A. cash flow from operations
B. terminal disposal of investment
C. net initial investment
D. average return on investment
Answer» D. average return on investment
1540.

Cost incur for defective products, after their shipment to customers is classified as$?

A. prevention costs
B. external failure costs
C. appraisal costs
D. internal failure costs
Answer» C. appraisal costs
1541.

Step by step business functions, in which product or services must have customer usefulness is classified as$?

A. value chain
B. useful chain
C. product chain
D. services chain
Answer» B. useful chain
1542.

An availability of financial information, to oversee operations and system of accounting is known as$?

A. manager ship
B. controllership
C. proprietorship
D. functional line
Answer» C. proprietorship
1543.

Experimentation and generation of ideas related to new product or services are included in$?

A. addressing management
B. research and development
C. value development
D. service provider
Answer» C. value development
1544.

Function of plant manager, in which he is responsible for new assets investment is termed as$?

A. line function
B. staff function
C. asset function
D. investment function
Answer» B. staff function
1545.

Type of accounting which measures, reports and analysis non-financial and financial information to help in decision making is called$?

A. financial accounting
B. management accounting
C. cost accounting
D. decision accounting
Answer» C. cost accounting
1546.

In value chain analysis, selling and promotion to prospective customers is classified as$?

A. researching
B. marketing
C. acquaintance
D. usefulness
Answer» C. acquaintance
1547.

Purpose of financial accounting is$?

A. communicating company position to investors
B. helping managers make decisions
C. future oriented
D. single person orientation
Answer» B. helping managers make decisions
1548.

Net initial investment is divided by uniform increasing in future cash flows to calculate$?

A. discounting period
B. investment period
C. payback period
D. earning period
Answer» D. earning period
1549.

Quantity of produced output is divided by quantity of used input to calculate$?

A. targeted productivity
B. total factor productivity
C. partial productivity
D. unused productivity
Answer» D. unused productivity
1550.

Considering two fiscal years 2013 and 2014, if selling price in 2013 and 2014 is $55 and $60 per unit respectively and actual units sold in 2013 are 25000 units, then revenue effect of price recovery will be$?

A. $14,500
B. $135,000
C. $125,000
D. $12,500
Answer» D. $12,500