glo-bus quiz 2() questions and answers

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Which of the following is NOT an action company co-managers can take to help meet or beat the investor-expected increases in the company's stock price in upcoming years? - Making it company practice to issue additional shares of stock each year and use the proceeds to pay down the debt outstanding until the company's debt-equity percentages reach 20% or lower for debt and 80% or more for equity - Increasing annual dividend payments to shareholders most every year - Making it a frequent management practice to allocate a portion of internal cash flows from operations to repurchasing shares of the company's common stock - Putting increased attention on boosting operating profits in all four geographic regions -- the resulting growth in operating profits companywide will act to increase total net profits and EPS; higher earnings per share are an important driver of the company's stock price - When the company's stock price drops because of unexpectedly weak company performance in the prior year but is expected to recover and rise in the next several decision rounds. opting to borrow money preferably in the form of 1-year loans from the Global Community Bank (but not so much as to impair the company's credit rating) and using the borrowed funds to repurchase outstanding shares of common stock 2. Which of the following is NOT an action company co-managers can take that has good potential for increasing the company's average ROE and helping the company meet or beat the investorexpected ROE targets in upcoming years? - Pursuing efforts to boost total operating profits in all four geographic regions -- the resulting growth in operating profits companywide will increase total net profits (a company's net profits are the numerator in calculating the company's ROE) - Paying a small annual dividend to shareholders (less than $0.50 per share) which is increased annually by about $0.05 per shares; a small but growing dividend provides the company with more cash to fund capital expenditures and/or pay down bank borrowings ahead of schedule - Using a portion of the company's internal cash flows from operations for the next several years to repurchase shares of common stock - Borrowing money from the Global Community Bank (preferably in the form of a 1-year loan that can be fully or mostly repaid the following year) and using the proceeds to repurchase outstanding shares of common stock: such action makes considerable financial sense when the company's stock price is expected to rise substantially in future years and/or when unexpectedly weak company performance in the prior year causes a drop in its stock price - Increasing annual dividend payments to shareholders (because all net profits not paid out as dividends are treated as retained earnings and because bigger retained earnings have the effect of increasing shareholders equity) 3. Which one of the following is NOT a way to improve the P/Q rating of a company's brand of action-capture cameras? - Adding one or two more extra performance features - Increasing the image sensor size and the resolution of the LCD display screen - Increasing expenditures for camera R&D - Spending several more dollars on the camera housing and on included accessories - Increasing the number of models in the company's lineup of multi-featured cameras 4. If a company pays each camera PAT member a base wage of $21,000, thereby resulting in base wages of $84,000 per 4-person PAT, and if camera PATs work an average of 2,000 hours per year to assemble 3,000 cameras annually, it follows that - the hourly base wage cost for a PAT to assemble a camera would be $30.00 and that the labor cost of assembling a camera at overtime would be $60.00 per PAT. - the hourly base wage cost for a PAT to assemble a camera would be $28.00 and that the labor cost of assembling a camera at overtime would be $42.00 per PAT. - the hourly base wage cost for a PAT to assemble a camera would be $24.00 and that the labor cost of assembling a camera at overtime would be $36.00 per PAT. - the hourly base wage cost for a PAT to assemble a camera would be $10.50 and that the labor cost of assembling a camera at overtime would be $15.75 per PAT. - the hourly base wage cost of assembling a camera would be $28.00 and that the labor cost of assembling a camera at overtime cannot be determined from the available information due to the lack of information about compensation payments for assembly quality incentives. perfect attendance bonuses, and the cost of fringe benefit packages 5. Actions that can lead to higher labor productivity in assembling cameras/drones do NOT include - increasing the annual bonus for perfect attendance paid to cameraidrone PAT members from $800 to $875. - reducing the number of camera/drone models being assembled. - boosting the minimum number of cameras/drones that camera/drone PATs are expected to assemble each week -- such failure to achieve the weekly quota in as many as 4 weeks a year constitutes automatic disqualification for year-end perfect attendance bonuses. - increasing total annual compensation per camera/drone PAT member by a minimum of 2% and a maximum of 5% annually. - increasing annual expenditures to train camera/drone PATs in best practice assembly methods and ways to improve productivity from S2.000 per PAT to $2,250 per PAT 6. The website prices virtually all companies in the industry charge Asia-Pacific buyers for UAV drones are likely to be higher than the website prices they charge UAV drone buyers in North America because the administrative costs per drone sold that companies incur on sales to buyers in the Asia-Pacific region are over $10 higher than those incurred on sales to buyers in North America. because unfavorable exchange rate adjustments are consistently $10 to $30 higher on sales to buyers in the Asia-Pacific region than for buyers in North America. because the corporate profits taxes that all companies have to pay to governments in the Asia-Pacific region are 35% higher on average than the corporate profits companies have to pay governments in North America. when the import duties on shipments of UAV drones to buyers in the Asia-Pacific region are significantly bigger than the import duties on shipments of UAV drones to buyers in North America. because the production/assembly costs per drone that companies incur on UAV drones shipped to the Asia-Pacific region are many dollars higher than production/assembly costs per drone shipped to North America. 7. After each decision round, company managers should make a point of examining the information on p. 2 of the Company Operating Report that concerns the company's profitability in the action camera segment in each geographic region because total operating profits and operating profit margins are very likely to be lower in some regions than others and because management needs to take actions to boost its profitability in the underperforming regions in the upcoming decision round. this report provides the company's management team with convincing documentation of the precise reasons why the company's camera-related operating profits and operating profit margins were bigger in some regions than in others. this report provides superb guidance about how much the company needs to raise/lower its average wholesale camera prices in each geographic region. this report provides superb documentation about whether the company spent too much or too little in each region on advertising, retailer support, and website product displays/info in the just-completed decision round. the information in this report allows managers to see in which regions the company was most competitively successful and least competitively successful, competitive factor by competitive factor. 8. Which one of the following actions helps boost a company's image rating/brand reputation? Using environmentally friendly camera components and recycled materials for manuals and packaging for the company's action cameras Charging camera retailers an average wholesale price that is typically 10% or more below the highest price being charged in the region Paying camera/drone PAT members attractively high total annual compensation packages. thereby enabling them to enjoy a standard of living well above the Taiwan average Making it standard practice for the company to offer all buyers of its camera and drones a full 1-year warranty Increasing the PIQ rating of the company's UAV drones 9. Which of the following combinations of actions will likely provide the LEAST competitive benefits in helping a company catch the eye of action camera shoppers. significantly boost overall buyer appeal for its cameras versus rival brands, and cause more camera shoppers to purchase its brand instead of rival brands in each of the four geographic regions? Increasing expenditures for website product displays/info $100,000 in all four regions and increasing advertising expenditures by $250,000 in all four regions Increasing the warranty period from 90 days in each region to 180 days in each region and increasing the number of camera models from 4 to 6 Boosting spending for retailer support by $500,000 in all four geographic regions and instituting $7 reductions in the average wholesale prices charged to camera retailers in each geographic region Boosting its P/Q rating from 5.5 stars to 6.3 stars and increasing spending for advertising from levels that are $1,000,000 above the prior-year regional averages to levels about $3,000,000 above the prior-year regional averages in all four geographic regions. Boosting the number of weekly sales promotion from 4 to 7 in all four regions and also increasing the percentage discounts to camera retailers during these promotions from 11% to 15%