Explore topic-wise MCQs in General Management.

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1551.

An example of learning and growth perspective in balanced scorecard is$?

A. employee turnover rates
B. operating capabilities and number of patents
C. operating income and revenue growth
D. customer satisfaction and market share
Answer» B. operating capabilities and number of patents
1552.

An example of direct engineered cost is$?

A. indirect material cost
B. direct material cost
C. direct labour cost
D. indirect labour cost
Answer» C. direct labour cost
1553.

Chart which represents how regularly defect occurs in production process is classified as$?

A. relevant costing diagram
B. cause and effect diagram
C. control chart
D. Pareto chart
Answer» E.
1554.

An amount of available capacity other than employed capacity, to meet customer's demand, is classified as$?

A. targeted capacity
B. budgeted capacity
C. recovery capacity
D. unused capacity
Answer» E.
1555.

In operating income strategic analysis, a component which measures change in operating income attributed to change in output quantity is classified as$?

A. internal process component
B. growth component
C. price recovery component
D. productivity component
Answer» C. price recovery component
1556.

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.
1557.

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
1558.

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
1559.

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
1560.

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
1561.

Fourth step in decision making process is?

A. linear correlation
B. making decisions
C. implement decisions
D. evaluate performance
Answer» C. implement decisions
1562.

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
1563.

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
1564.

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
1565.

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
1566.

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

A. researching
B. marketing
C. acquaintance
D. usefulness
Answer» C. acquaintance
1567.

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
1568.

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
1569.

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
1570.

If budgeted input price is $50, price variance is $30 then an actual price will be

A. $100
B. $20
C. $80
D. $60
Answer» D. $60
1571.

If working capital is $265000 and current liabilities are $378000, then current assets can be

A. $113,000
B. $643,000
C. $743,000
D. $543,000
Answer» C. $743,000
1572.

Examining of past performance, exploring alternative and planning future is

A. learning
B. alternating
C. examining
D. deciding
Answer» B. alternating
1573.

If cost of direct materials use in goods sold is $5000 and total revenues are $9000 then throughput contribution would be

A. $5,000
B. $14,000
C. $4,000
D. $9,000
Answer» D. $9,000
1574.

Fixed cost, and contribution margin percentage for bundle are divided to calculate

A. breakeven costs
B. breakeven revenues
C. breakeven units
D. breakeven sales
Answer» C. breakeven units
1575.

Concept, which states that resources are used to meet particular goals is

A. cost incurrence
B. valued incurrence
C. locked incurrence
D. non valued incurrence
Answer» B. valued incurrence
1576.

A company must eliminate all those activities that do not add value to all products or services in planning of

A. variable overhead cost
B. fixed overhead cost
C. fixed batch cost
D. variable batch cost
Answer» B. fixed overhead cost
1577.

Cost allocation base used by an operating manager is classified as

A. machine hours
B. flexible hours
C. variable hours
D. fixed hours
Answer» B. flexible hours
1578.

If actual result is $65000 and static budget variance is $35000, then static budget amount will be

A. $30,000
B. $100,000
C. $200,000
D. $30,000
Answer» B. $100,000
1579.

If operating income is $5650000 and revenue is $68558000, then return on sales will be

A. 8.24%
B. 7.24%
C. 9.24%
D. 10.24%
Answer» B. 7.24%
1580.

Current assets are subtracted from current liabilities to calculate

A. opportunity cost of capital
B. working capital
C. total long term assets
D. weighted average cost of capital
Answer» C. total long term assets
1581.

For increasing sales, decrease in selling price below selling price list is known as

A. partial discount
B. corporate discount
C. treasury discount
D. price discount
Answer» E.
1582.

If contribution margin is $3000 and revenues are $9000, then all variable costs will be

A. $12,000
B. $6,000
C. -$6000
D. -$12000
Answer» C. -$6000
1583.

A technique, which accumulates and tracks costs 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» D. target costing
1584.

Total cost incur by customer to use, acquire, maintain and dispose service or product is classified as

A. budgeted life cycle
B. targeted life cycle
C. customer life cycle
D. operating life cycle
Answer» D. operating life cycle
1585.

In customer cost hierarchy, costs of those activities that cannot be traced to distribution channels or individual customers are called

A. discretionary channel costs
B. corporate-sustaining costs
C. distribution-channel costs
D. engineered resource costs
Answer» C. distribution-channel costs
1586.

An analysis and reporting of revenues earned, and incurred costs to earn these revenues from customers is classified as

A. partial productivity analysis
B. treasury cost analysis
C. customer profitability analysis
D. customer cost analysis
Answer» D. customer cost analysis
1587.

Gross margin is $7000 and revenues are $16000, then cost of goods sold would be

A. $23,000
B. -$23000
C. -$9000
D. $9,000
Answer» E.
1588.

If target net income is $36000 and tax rate is 40%, then target operating income will be

A. $10,000
B. $20,000
C. $40,000
D. $60,000
Answer» E.
1589.

If margin of safety is $25000 and budgeted revenue is $45000, then margin of safety in percentage will be

A. 55.56%
B. 25.50%
C. 28.00%
D. 45.00%
Answer» B. 25.50%
1590.

Gross margin is divided by revenues to calculate the

A. income margin percentage
B. Gross margin percentage
C. cost margin percentage
D. sales margin percentage
Answer» C. cost margin percentage
1591.

Graph, which shows change in sold quantity and its effect on operating income is called

A. PV graph
B. CV graph
C. SO graph
D. QI graph
Answer» B. CV graph
1592.

In customer cost hierarchy, cost of activities related to specific channel of distribution is classified as

A. discretionary channel costs
B. corporate-sustaining costs
C. distribution-channel costs
D. engineered resource costs
Answer» D. engineered resource costs
1593.

Difference between static budget amount and flexible budget amount is named as

A. sales mix variance
B. sales volume variance
C. flexible budget variance
D. static budget variance
Answer» C. flexible budget variance
1594.

Difference between an actual budget and corresponding amount in static budget is classified as

A. correspondent budget
B. full budget variance
C. methodology variance
D. static budget variance
Answer» E.
1595.

Difference between actual quantity use and input quantity for output is multiplied with budgeted price to calculate

A. efficiency deviation
B. efficiency variance
C. budgeted variance
D. usage variance
Answer» C. budgeted variance
1596.

If an efficiency variance is 200 units and actual input quantity is 750 units, then budgeted input quantity will be

A. 275 units
B. 125 units
C. 550 units
D. 650 units
Answer» D. 650 units
1597.

An actual rate paid to labour is greater than budgeted rate, it means that the

A. cost is unfavourable
B. variance is unfavourable
C. variance is favourable
D. cost is favourable
Answer» C. variance is favourable
1598.

Difference between actual input variance and budgeted input variance is called

A. price variance
B. actual output price
C. budgeted output price
D. actual selling price
Answer» B. actual output price
1599.

Master budget, which is based on planned output level at start of budget period is considered as

A. static budget
B. varied budget
C. marketing budget
D. methodological budget
Answer» B. varied budget
1600.

If budgeted input price is $80 and price variance is $40, then an actual price will be

A. $20
B. $120
C. $40
D. $60
Answer» C. $40