2024-2025 BSG COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
The installation of production improvement option D which boosts worker
productivity by 50% by using robots to assist in producing footwear
is a more economically attractive means for reducing labor costs per pair
produced production facility in North America than for a production facility in
the Asia Pacific
Which one of the following actions is least likely to increase labor productivity by
an amount that is large enough to result in lower labor costs per pair produced
at a particular plant?
Increasing worker base pay by the allowed maximum of 15% each and every
year until the company's base pay compensation per employee exceeds the total
compensation per employee ($/year) of all other companies in the industry
Which one of the following options is usually an appealing way to try to increase
a company's ROE?
Repurchasing share4s of common stock
Which one of the following has little bearing on whether profitable opportunity
exists to install additional new or refurbished production equipment in the
upcoming decision round?
How many companies in the industry have expanded their production capacity
since Year 10
Which one of the following is a way to improve the S/Q rating of branded pairs
produced at a particular production facility?
Increasing per model expenditures for enhanced styling/features
If a company's actual results for revenues , net profits, EPS, and ROE turn out to
be worse than projected, then it is usually because
the competitive efforts exerted by rival companies to capture sales and market
share for themselves in one or more geographic regions proved stronger than
,company managers anticipated, given the updates of the regional average
competitive efforts that company managers made in the
A company cannot effectively differentiate its branded footwear from the brands
of rivals and thereby attract more buyers by
refraining from bidding on contracts to supply private label footwear to chain
retailers
The most competitively effective and very likely most profitable long-term
approach to reducing or eliminating the impact of paying tariffs on pairs
imported to a company's distribution warehouse in Europe-Africa is to
build and equip a production facility in Europe-Africa and then expand it as may
be needed to supply all (or at least most) of the pairs the company intends to try
to sell in the Europe-Africa region
Production improvement option B (with capital costs of $1.6 million per million
pairs of production capacity and annual depreciation costs of 10%) that reduces
production run setup costs by 50% each year makes the most economic sense
in which one of the following circumstances?
Company managers expect to produce 350 models/styles and 6 million pairs of
branded footwear on an ongoing basis at a 6-million pair capacity facility in the
Asia-Pacific-annual production run setup costs for 350 models of branded
footwear are $9 million
Which one of the following has a direct negative impact on a company's image
rating
decreases in the company's global average S/Q rating for branded footwear
Which of the following actions is not one of the optional initiatives that a
company can include in its social responsibility strategy to boost its image
rating over the long term?
using enviromentally friendly or green materials in producing athletic footwear
Which sets of actions are unlikely to help a company achieve a differentiation
based competitive advantage over some/many of its rivals?
Raising worker base pay by 10% or more each year
, One of the lessons about competing in a globally competitive marketplace that
comes from playing the BSG game?
competition is dynamic and always evolve
company's management team to abandon efforts to win contracts to supply
private label footwear to chain retailers
it believes the company has a good prospects to profitability sell all of the
branded pairs it can produce
Pursuing a strategy of social responsibility and corporate citizenship
helps increase a company's image rating/brand reputation
Which statements about striving to reduce labor costs per pair produced at
each of company's production facilities
Achieving labor costs per pair produced at a particular production facility
which one of the following actions is usually a dependable and appealing way for
manger to try to boost their company's EPS
repurchase shares of the company's common stock
The Time Series competitive Efforts section of the CIR which provides every
company's management team with a means
drawing conclusions about what level of competitive effort
The managerial value of regularly consulting the data in the Year to Year
Performance Highlights report has to do with the data provided being the
quickest and best way
review the caliber of the operating results and key performance outcomes being
achieved in all four geographic regions
One appealing way for a company to adjust to favorable and unfavorable
adjust prior year shipping patterns and its pricing and marketing strategies to
sell more
What is the value of contracting with celebrities to endorse the company's brand
of athletic footwear
Celebrity endorsements strengthen a company's overall competitive
While contracting with celebrities to endorse a company's brand adds to the
competitive power of its product offering vis a vis the offering of rivals
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
The installation of production improvement option D which boosts worker
productivity by 50% by using robots to assist in producing footwear
is a more economically attractive means for reducing labor costs per pair
produced production facility in North America than for a production facility in
the Asia Pacific
Which one of the following actions is least likely to increase labor productivity by
an amount that is large enough to result in lower labor costs per pair produced
at a particular plant?
Increasing worker base pay by the allowed maximum of 15% each and every
year until the company's base pay compensation per employee exceeds the total
compensation per employee ($/year) of all other companies in the industry
Which one of the following options is usually an appealing way to try to increase
a company's ROE?
Repurchasing share4s of common stock
Which one of the following has little bearing on whether profitable opportunity
exists to install additional new or refurbished production equipment in the
upcoming decision round?
How many companies in the industry have expanded their production capacity
since Year 10
Which one of the following is a way to improve the S/Q rating of branded pairs
produced at a particular production facility?
Increasing per model expenditures for enhanced styling/features
If a company's actual results for revenues , net profits, EPS, and ROE turn out to
be worse than projected, then it is usually because
the competitive efforts exerted by rival companies to capture sales and market
share for themselves in one or more geographic regions proved stronger than
,company managers anticipated, given the updates of the regional average
competitive efforts that company managers made in the
A company cannot effectively differentiate its branded footwear from the brands
of rivals and thereby attract more buyers by
refraining from bidding on contracts to supply private label footwear to chain
retailers
The most competitively effective and very likely most profitable long-term
approach to reducing or eliminating the impact of paying tariffs on pairs
imported to a company's distribution warehouse in Europe-Africa is to
build and equip a production facility in Europe-Africa and then expand it as may
be needed to supply all (or at least most) of the pairs the company intends to try
to sell in the Europe-Africa region
Production improvement option B (with capital costs of $1.6 million per million
pairs of production capacity and annual depreciation costs of 10%) that reduces
production run setup costs by 50% each year makes the most economic sense
in which one of the following circumstances?
Company managers expect to produce 350 models/styles and 6 million pairs of
branded footwear on an ongoing basis at a 6-million pair capacity facility in the
Asia-Pacific-annual production run setup costs for 350 models of branded
footwear are $9 million
Which one of the following has a direct negative impact on a company's image
rating
decreases in the company's global average S/Q rating for branded footwear
Which of the following actions is not one of the optional initiatives that a
company can include in its social responsibility strategy to boost its image
rating over the long term?
using enviromentally friendly or green materials in producing athletic footwear
Which sets of actions are unlikely to help a company achieve a differentiation
based competitive advantage over some/many of its rivals?
Raising worker base pay by 10% or more each year
, One of the lessons about competing in a globally competitive marketplace that
comes from playing the BSG game?
competition is dynamic and always evolve
company's management team to abandon efforts to win contracts to supply
private label footwear to chain retailers
it believes the company has a good prospects to profitability sell all of the
branded pairs it can produce
Pursuing a strategy of social responsibility and corporate citizenship
helps increase a company's image rating/brand reputation
Which statements about striving to reduce labor costs per pair produced at
each of company's production facilities
Achieving labor costs per pair produced at a particular production facility
which one of the following actions is usually a dependable and appealing way for
manger to try to boost their company's EPS
repurchase shares of the company's common stock
The Time Series competitive Efforts section of the CIR which provides every
company's management team with a means
drawing conclusions about what level of competitive effort
The managerial value of regularly consulting the data in the Year to Year
Performance Highlights report has to do with the data provided being the
quickest and best way
review the caliber of the operating results and key performance outcomes being
achieved in all four geographic regions
One appealing way for a company to adjust to favorable and unfavorable
adjust prior year shipping patterns and its pricing and marketing strategies to
sell more
What is the value of contracting with celebrities to endorse the company's brand
of athletic footwear
Celebrity endorsements strengthen a company's overall competitive
While contracting with celebrities to endorse a company's brand adds to the
competitive power of its product offering vis a vis the offering of rivals
