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BSG COMPREHENSIVE EXAM (FALL) NEWEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALL
ANSWERED {120 Q & A} ALREADY GRADED A+ |
BRAND NEW! | 100% GUARANTEED PASS
The most attractive way to reduce or eliminate the impact of
paying tariffs on pairs imported to a company's distribution
warehouse in Latin America is to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · Build a
plant in Latin America and then expand its capacity as may be
needed so that the plant has the capability to supply all (or at
least most) of the pairs the company intends to try to sell in Latin
America
T or F? In a horizontal complementary strategic alliance, one firm
enters a nonequity strategic alliance with another to help in the
design, manufacture, or distribution of its product - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > F
An appealing strategy that a company can use to reduce
exposure to adverse exchange rate adjustments to the costs of
pairs shipped to a distribution warehouse from a plant in a
different geographic region is to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · Build
sufficient plant capacity in each of the four geographic regions to
greatly reduce (maybe even eliminate) the need to ship pairs to a
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distribution warehouse from a plant in a different geographic
region - such a strategy has the added benefit of cutting tariff
payments on imported footwear
If a company is pursuing a strategy to produce branded footwear
at a low-cost relative to any other rival firm, then it should
regularly review the plant and production cost benchmarking
data in each year's footwear industry report to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> · Gauge whether its efforts to reduce total manufacturing cost
per branded pair produced have been more/less successful than
other companies pursuing much the same outcome and to learn
what areas of plant operations may warrant further actions to
reduce costs
Which of the following statements about striving to reduce labor
costs per pair produced at each of the company's plants is true? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · To achieve labor costs per pair produced at a
particular plant that are "low" compared to their plants in the
same geographic region, company manager must - each decision
round- seek out a combination of base pay increases, piecework
incentives per non-defective pair produced, and expenditure for
best practices training at the plan that is projected to drive down
labor costs even further
Which one of the following will NOT help a company boosts its
credit rating from a A- to A? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · A decline in the
company's current ration from 2.0 to 1.5
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What WILL help a company boost its credit rating from A- to A? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · An increase in the company's interest
coverage ratio from 2.0 to 12.5
· A decline in the company's debt to asset ration from 0.30 to 0.15
· An increase in the company's default risk ration from 5.0 to 10.0
· A change in the company's default risk rating from medium to
low
Which on of the following is a way to improve the S/Q rating of
branded pairs produced at a particular plant - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > ·
Increasing expenditures for TQM/Six Sigma Programs
A dependable and appealing way for managers to try and boost
their company's EPS is to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · Achieve a sizable
cost based competitive advantage over rivals that company
managers are savvy enough to sustain; as the market demand
for branded footwear grows and the company exploits its cost
advantage by underpricing most/all rivals in all four geographic
regions, the resulting sales volume and revenue gains will
typically spur increases in EPS
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Brinker International operates restaurants in several different
segments of the casual dining market. This is - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
an example of product diversification.
On the most basic level, corporate-level strategy is concerned
with ____ and how to manage these businesses. - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > what product markets and businesses the firm should be
in
Which acquisition would be considered the LEAST related? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > an upscale "white-tablecloth" restaurant chain
acquires a travel agency
The more "constrained" the relatedness of diversification, - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > the more links there are among the businesses
owned by an organization.
Which of the following is NOT a limit to vertical integration? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > imitation of core technology by potential
competitors
What is a limit to vertical integration? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
bureaucratic costs
BSG COMPREHENSIVE EXAM (FALL) NEWEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALL
ANSWERED {120 Q & A} ALREADY GRADED A+ |
BRAND NEW! | 100% GUARANTEED PASS
The most attractive way to reduce or eliminate the impact of
paying tariffs on pairs imported to a company's distribution
warehouse in Latin America is to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · Build a
plant in Latin America and then expand its capacity as may be
needed so that the plant has the capability to supply all (or at
least most) of the pairs the company intends to try to sell in Latin
America
T or F? In a horizontal complementary strategic alliance, one firm
enters a nonequity strategic alliance with another to help in the
design, manufacture, or distribution of its product - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > F
An appealing strategy that a company can use to reduce
exposure to adverse exchange rate adjustments to the costs of
pairs shipped to a distribution warehouse from a plant in a
different geographic region is to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · Build
sufficient plant capacity in each of the four geographic regions to
greatly reduce (maybe even eliminate) the need to ship pairs to a
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distribution warehouse from a plant in a different geographic
region - such a strategy has the added benefit of cutting tariff
payments on imported footwear
If a company is pursuing a strategy to produce branded footwear
at a low-cost relative to any other rival firm, then it should
regularly review the plant and production cost benchmarking
data in each year's footwear industry report to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> · Gauge whether its efforts to reduce total manufacturing cost
per branded pair produced have been more/less successful than
other companies pursuing much the same outcome and to learn
what areas of plant operations may warrant further actions to
reduce costs
Which of the following statements about striving to reduce labor
costs per pair produced at each of the company's plants is true? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · To achieve labor costs per pair produced at a
particular plant that are "low" compared to their plants in the
same geographic region, company manager must - each decision
round- seek out a combination of base pay increases, piecework
incentives per non-defective pair produced, and expenditure for
best practices training at the plan that is projected to drive down
labor costs even further
Which one of the following will NOT help a company boosts its
credit rating from a A- to A? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · A decline in the
company's current ration from 2.0 to 1.5
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What WILL help a company boost its credit rating from A- to A? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · An increase in the company's interest
coverage ratio from 2.0 to 12.5
· A decline in the company's debt to asset ration from 0.30 to 0.15
· An increase in the company's default risk ration from 5.0 to 10.0
· A change in the company's default risk rating from medium to
low
Which on of the following is a way to improve the S/Q rating of
branded pairs produced at a particular plant - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > ·
Increasing expenditures for TQM/Six Sigma Programs
A dependable and appealing way for managers to try and boost
their company's EPS is to - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > · Achieve a sizable
cost based competitive advantage over rivals that company
managers are savvy enough to sustain; as the market demand
for branded footwear grows and the company exploits its cost
advantage by underpricing most/all rivals in all four geographic
regions, the resulting sales volume and revenue gains will
typically spur increases in EPS
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Brinker International operates restaurants in several different
segments of the casual dining market. This is - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
an example of product diversification.
On the most basic level, corporate-level strategy is concerned
with ____ and how to manage these businesses. - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > what product markets and businesses the firm should be
in
Which acquisition would be considered the LEAST related? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > an upscale "white-tablecloth" restaurant chain
acquires a travel agency
The more "constrained" the relatedness of diversification, - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > the more links there are among the businesses
owned by an organization.
Which of the following is NOT a limit to vertical integration? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > imitation of core technology by potential
competitors
What is a limit to vertical integration? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
bureaucratic costs
