BSG COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM LATEST 2026 ACTUAL EXAM
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Company managers should give strong consideration to bidding
for private label contracts in one or more geographic regions in
the upcoming decision round when - ANSWER-· They expect to
have idle production capacity at one or more plants after
producing all the branded pairs needed to meet anticipated
demand in the upcoming year
Which one of the following does NTO help boost a company's
image rating? - ANSWER-· Paying total compensation to plant
employees that is below the industry average
What DOES help boost a company's image rating - ANSWER-·
Reducing the price, the company charges for its branded footwear
· Sustained spending for social responsibility and corporate
citizenship initiatives
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· Being successful in winning celebrity endorsement contracts and
thereby boosting the company's celebrity appeal ratings
· Raising advertising to levels above the industry average in each
geographic region
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 - 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
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 - 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 distribution
warehouse from a plant in a different geographic region - such a
strategy has the added benefit of cutting tariff payments on
imported footwear
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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 - 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? -
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
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Which one of the following will NOT help a company boosts its
credit rating from a A- to A? - ANSWER-· A decline in the
company's current ration from 2.0 to 1.5
What WILL help a company boost its credit rating from A- to A? -
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 - ANSWER-·
Increasing expenditures for TQM/Six Sigma Programs