GLobus2 Quiz General

GLobus2 Quiz General Dấu . đen , @, in đậm nguyên đoạn, số 0 in đậm(nhớ phân biệt o vs 0) = chọn GLO-BUS QUIZ 2 Professor Duffy The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones include the assembly quality incentives paid to drone PAT members, the company's prior-year brand reputation, and the prior year worldwide average warranty claim rate on the company's drones. Which of the following ARE components of the compensation package for members of production assembly teams? The dollar-cost of a PAT member's fringe benefit package, assembly quality incentives ($ per unit assembled divided equally among PAT members), year-end bonus for perfect attendance, and annual base wage The factors that affect the productivity of both camera PATs and drone PATs include the size of assembly quality incentives paid to camera/drone PATs, how favorably the overall size of the company's total compensation package (not including overtime pay) per camera/drone PAT member compares against the camera/drone all-company averages, and changes in the number of camera/drone models that have to be assembled. The company's present assembly plant has sufficient space for up to 150 workstations, without expanding the size of the plant. A camera-maker's price competitiveness in a particular geographic region is determined by whether its price is above or below the average price of all companies competing in that geographic region. The interest rate a company pays on loans outstanding depends on its credit rating. Which the following are not factors in determining a company's credit rating? The size of the company's year-end cash balance, the average of its ROE for the past three years, and how many times the company has been put on credit watch. Consumer purchases of digital cameras are seasonal with about 20% of consumer demand coming in quarter 1, 20% in quarter 2, 20% in quarter 3 and 40% in quarter 4. Which of the following are the four geographic regions in which the company is selling its cameras? Europe-Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and North America. Which of the following currencies are involved in affecting the revenues your company receives on camera shipments to retailers in the four geographic regions of the world where it markets cameras? U.S. dollars, Taiwan dollars, Singapore dollars, euros, and Brazilian real. Which of the following do not have a bearing in determining a company's unit sales and market share of entry-level or multi-featured cameras in a particular geographic region? The size of the incentive bonus paid to PATs, the percentage of cameras that were outsourced, and warranty claims costs. The company's shipments of digital cameras to retailers in various foreign countries are subject to import duties imposed by the countries to which the cameras are shipped and the effects of fluctuating exchange rates. The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating include: the caliber of core components; company's cumulative spending for new product R&D, engineering and design; the number of models; camera body ergonomics/durability; and the number of special utility features. The company maintains a production facility in Taiwan. The decisions that company co-manages make each year are organized around marketing, product design, assembly/shipping, compensation and labor force, and finance. The options that a company has for assembling enough cameras to meet peak-quarter order form retailers include hiring "temporary" PATs, the use of overtime, and outsourcing assembly to contact assemblers. The factors that affect the productivity of PATs include the size of incentive bonuses to workers, base pay increases, perfect attendance bonuses, the size of the fringe benefits package, how favorably the overall size of a company's compensation package compares with the industry-average compensation package, expenditures for PAT training and productivity improvement, and changes in the number of models. The market for digital cameras is projected to grow at 8-10% annually during the year 6-year 10 period and at 4-6% during the year 11-year 15 period. Which of the following is not an accurate description of the market for digital cameras? Retailers get their cameras from camera-makers on a just-in-time delivery basis. Which of the following are not measures on which a company's performance is judged/scored? P/Q rating, dividend payments, revenues, market share, and total number of cameras sold, and balance sheet strength. Which of the following most accurately describes your company's production/assembly operations? Most all camera components are sources from outside suppliers having plants or distribution centers near the company's assembly facility; the company uses workstations staffed by 4-person teams to assemble cameras. In the most recent year, the current productivity of the assembly teams was 2,500 cameras per quarter or 10,000 per year. Some cameras are outsourced from contract assemblers that are paid a $25 fee for each camera assembled. Which of the following statements accurately describes the distribution of the company's unit sales across the four geographic regions in which it sells cameras? The company sells 40% of its cameras its biggest region and sells only 10% of its cameras in its smallest region. Which one of the following is NOT a way to improve the P/Q rating of a company's brand of multi- featured cameras? Increasing the number of models in the company's line of multi-featured cameras. Assume a company's Income Statement for a given quarter is as follows: Sales Revenues (50,000), Production Costs (26,500), Delivery Costs (1,600), Marketing Costs (8,500), Administrative Expenses (2,000), Operating Profit (14,400), Net Interest (750), Income Before NEW GLO-BUS Quiz 2 Answers e < II] a Glo-Bus Software, Inc. Global Business Strategy Simulation Game < Previous Question 1 Next> 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'sstock 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 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'scredit rating) and using the borrowed funds to repurchase outstanding shares of common stock Making it a frequent management practice to allocate a portion of internal cash flows from operations to repurchasing shares of the company'scommon stock Increasing annual dividend payments to shareholders most every year 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'sstock price < Previous End Review