Explore topic-wise MCQs in General Management.

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1601.

In management control, point of reference for making comparisons of performance is

A. focused performance
B. merchandise performance
C. distribution performance
D. expected performance
Answer» E.
1602.

In relevance concepts, relevant revenues are also termed as

A. parallel revenues
B. abnormal revenues
C. expected future revenues
D. serial revenues
Answer» D. serial revenues
1603.

An investment of money in idle inventory, in place of investing same amount of money somewhere else is an example of

A. offshore cost
B. outsource cost
C. in-source cost
D. opportunity cost
Answer» E.
1604.

If opportunity cost per barrel is $45 per unit, incremental cost per barrel is $65, then minimum transfer price will be

A. $45
B. $110
C. $20
D. $65
Answer» C. $20
1605.

Products or services that are transferred between different subunits of a company are classified as

A. mobile products
B. dysfunctional products
C. intermediate product
D. territorial product
Answer» D. territorial product
1606.

Consumed time to deliver a complete order to its customers is termed as

A. responding time
B. value chain time
C. delivery time
D. manufacturing cycle efficiency
Answer» D. manufacturing cycle efficiency
1607.

A theory which describes techniques of operating income maximization, facing with non-bottleneck and bottle neck operations is

A. theory of contribution
B. theory of constraints
C. theory of conflicts
D. theory of maximization
Answer» C. theory of conflicts
1608.

Number of employees who left company, divided by average number of employees to calculate ratio is called

A. employee turnover ratio
B. employee empowerment ratio
C. employee satisfaction ratio
D. employee training percentage
Answer» B. employee empowerment ratio
1609.

Costs incur for defective products, before their shipment to customers can be categorized as

A. prevention costs
B. external failure costs
C. appraisal costs
D. internal failure costs
Answer» E.
1610.

Reduction in setup time, manufacturing cycle efficiency and average time of manufacturing for key products are examples of

A. measures of growth and learning
B. measures of internal business processes
C. customer measures
D. financial measures
Answer» C. customer measures
1611.

Contribution margin per unit is divided by selling price of product to calculate

A. selling margin percentage
B. cost margin percentage
C. discount percentage
D. contribution margin percentage
Answer» E.
1612.

If selling price is $20 and number of units sold are 800, then revenue is equal to

A. $16,000
B. $40,000
C. $25,000
D. $35,700
Answer» B. $40,000
1613.

If variable cost per unit is $25 and quantity of units sold is 5000, then total variable cost would be

A. $155,000
B. $125,000
C. $135,000
D. $145,000
Answer» C. $135,000
1614.

Contribution margin per unit is divided by selling price to calculate

A. fixed margin percentage
B. contribution margin percentage
C. variable margin percentage
D. breakeven margin percentage
Answer» C. variable margin percentage
1615.

If contribution margin per unit is $700 per unit and break-even per unit is $40, then fixed cost would be

A. $35,000
B. $28,000
C. $17,500
D. $82,000
Answer» C. $17,500
1616.

Return on investment is also known as

A. accrual accounting rate of return
B. accounting rate of return
C. nominal rate of return
D. both a and b
Answer» E.
1617.

If budgeted sales in unit is 50 and breakeven sales in unit is 12, then margin of safety in units will be

A. 62
B. 38
C. 48
D. 58
Answer» C. 48
1618.

Type of distribution, which describes whether events to be occurred are mutually exclusive or collectively exhaustive can be classified as

A. mutual distribution
B. probability distribution
C. collective distribution
D. marginal distribution
Answer» C. collective distribution
1619.

If contribution margin per unit is $500 and contribution margin percentage is 25%, then selling price will be

A. $2,000
B. $5,250
C. $4,280
D. $3,860
Answer» B. $5,250
1620.

If revenue is $15000, total variable cost is $5000 and fixed cost $2000 then operating income will be

A. $4,000
B. $8,000
C. $5,000
D. $3,000
Answer» C. $5,000
1621.

If variable cost is $50000 and fixed cost is $30000, then operating income would be

A. $80,000
B. $160,000
C. $16,000
D. $20,000
Answer» E.
1622.

Rupee amount for required return of investment is subtracted from income to calculate

A. net income
B. after tax income
C. residual income
D. operating income
Answer» D. operating income
1623.

If after-tax operating income is $185000, weighted average cost of capital is 11%, total assets are $485000 and total liabilities are $367000, then economic value added would be

A. $142,020
B. $172,020
C. $162,020
D. $152,020
Answer» C. $162,020
1624.

Cost such as dispose value of an old machine is $6000 is classified as

A. irrelevant
B. depreciated cost
C. salvages
D. relevant
Answer» E.
1625.

Financial factors measured in numerical terms, having some monetary value are considered as

A. qualitative factors
B. quantitative factors
C. expected factors
D. recorded factors
Answer» C. expected factors
1626.

As compared to irrelevant cost, occurrence of relevant costs must

A. have high correlation
B. be in future
C. be in past
D. be zero correlated
Answer» C. be in past
1627.

In cost-plus pricing, 'plus' refers to a component named as

A. off shore cost
B. markup
C. sunk cost
D. outsource cost
Answer» C. sunk cost
1628.

Process which leads to disassembling and analysis of competitors, operating activities to become acquainted with competitors' technologies is called

A. outsource engineering
B. reverse engineering
C. target engineering
D. off shore engineering
Answer» C. target engineering
1629.

An income, which a company aims to earn by selling each unit of market offering is classified as

A. target operating income per unit
B. target cost per unit
C. total current full cost
D. total cost per unit
Answer» B. target cost per unit
1630.

Costs that behaves as irrelevant costs in process of decision making are classified as

A. past costs
B. future costs
C. expected costs
D. sunk costs
Answer» B. future costs
1631.

If net initial investment is $6850000 and uniform increases yearly cash flows is $2050000, then payback period will be

A. 3.34 years
B. 4.34 years
C. 5.34 years
D. 6.34 years
Answer» B. 4.34 years
1632.

Considering two years 2013 and 2014, quantity of output produced in 2014 is divided by cost of input used in 2013, to produce output in 2014 to calculate

A. benchmark engineered productivity
B. benchmark total factor productivity
C. benchmark partial productivity
D. benchmark total productivity
Answer» C. benchmark partial productivity
1633.

An example of customer 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» E.
1634.

An approach is used to manage unused capacity is

A. reengineering
B. downsizing
C. upgrading
D. none of above
Answer» C. upgrading
1635.

Translation of organization strategy, and mission into performance measures to provide framework for strategy implementation is termed as

A. differentiation scorecard
B. bargaining scorecard
C. leadership scorecard
D. balanced scorecard
Answer» E.
1636.

Value added manufacturing time is divided by total manufacturing is to calculate

A. value chain efficiency
B. value chain effectively
C. manufacturing cycle effectively
D. manufacturing cycle efficiency
Answer» E.
1637.

Balanced scorecard perspective measures company's success in targeted segments of customers, this perspective can also be classified as

A. internal business process perspective
B. customer perspective
C. learning perspective
D. financial perspective
Answer» C. learning perspective
1638.

Quantity of produced output is divided with cost of all used inputs to calculate

A. engineered productivity
B. targeted productivity
C. partial productivity
D. total factor productivity
Answer» E.
1639.

Dimensional analysis of cost includes

A. horizontally across dimension
B. horizontally upward dimension
C. vertically upward dimension
D. both a and c
Answer» E.
1640.

If real rate is 16% and an inflation rate is 8%, then nominal rate of return will be

A. 27.28%
B. 25.28%
C. 22.28%
D. 21.28%
Answer» C. 22.28%
1641.

Cash flows method, used by net present value method and internal rate of return are

A. vertical cash flows
B. discounted cash flows
C. lean cash flows
D. future cash flows
Answer» C. lean cash flows
1642.

Project's expected monetary loss or gain by discounting all cash outflows and inflows, using required rate of return is classified as

A. net present value
B. net future value
C. net discounted value
D. net recorded cash value
Answer» B. net future value
1643.

If actual input price is $150 and budgeted input price is $80, then price variance will be

A. $130
B. $70
C. $150
D. $80
Answer» C. $150
1644.

Decision making step, which consists of organization goals, predicting alternatives and communicating goals is called

A. organization
B. alternation
C. planning
D. valuing
Answer» D. valuing
1645.

Flow of goods and services, from start of gathering materials until delivery of products, is known as

A. flow chart analysis
B. supply chain analysis
C. resource chain analysis
D. acquiring analysis
Answer» C. resource chain analysis
1646.

Cost operations such as wages, salaries, depreciation, utilities and rent are summed together to calculate

A. throughput costs
B. investments
C. operating costs
D. marginal costs
Answer» D. marginal costs
1647.

Cost management technique which specially addresses strategic issues is classified as

A. address management
B. issue management
C. strategic cost management
D. managerial cost
Answer» D. managerial cost
1648.

In financial accounting, an emphasis and focus is considered as

A. communication oriented
B. bank oriented
C. future oriented
D. past oriented
Answer» E.
1649.

An engineering of products or detailed planning of products or services is called

A. product design
B. research steps
C. useful chain
D. value added
Answer» B. research steps
1650.

Marketing, production and management of distribution comes under category of

A. staff management
B. line management
C. marketing management
D. production management
Answer» C. marketing management