ARE 5.0 Practice Management Practice Problems Questions With Complete Solutions.

The prinicpal of a firm with 20 employees needs to hire additonal staff to cover the workload of a newly awarded project. In order to maximize profitabilit what is the most important issue that the principal should consider in deciding what type of staff to hire. A. Skills needed for new project B Potential billing rate for new hires C Workload of existing staff on current projects D Experience that new hires bring for future projects - A. A person with broad expereince would be valuable to have for future projects but this would probably be secondary concern when deciding whom to hire. In order to raise long-term productivity in a midsize firm, what changes to available resources might the firm make? A. Hire experienced architects to replace newly licensed staff B. Relocate to new offices with less space and lower rent C. Invest in a new building information modeling (BIM) program instead of a current computer aided drafting (CAD) system. D. Require staff to work a minimum number of paid overtime hours. - C. Which of the following requirements apply to a professional architectural corporation (Choose the three that apply). A. A certificate of authorization may be required in some states B. A formal agreement between directors is required by the state C. Articles of incorporation must be filed with the state's secretay of state D. A business license required by the municipality where the firm is located E. Stockholders, directors and officers must be licensed architects in the state in which they practice F. Duplicate fillings of incorporation must be sent to the IRS - A Some states require a seperate certificate of authorization to allow the firm to conduct business.C. Corproations, regardless of type are governed at the state level and article of incorporation must be filed with the states secretary of state. E. For professional corprations unlike subchapter C or subchapter S corporations all the stockholders, directors and offices must be licensed architects. An employer of an architectural firm can best prohibit moonlighting by employees by using a A. Oral Agreement B. Noncompete clause C. A will employment Law D. Employment conract - D. By using an employment contract, the firm can spell out exactly what is and is not allowed by the employee, which may include a prohibition of moonlighting or taking jobs outside of the firm. Noncompete clause does not apply to moonlighting An architectural firm with 36 employees is interviewing candidates for a project manager position. During the interview which of the following questions can the interviewer ask? A. What experience did you have when you worked at our competitor B. What is your age C. Do you have any physical problems that would prevent you from doing this work? D. What is your national origin (in case we try to pursue work overseas)? - A ADA Act does not allow you to ask questions during the interview process about disabilities that might interfere with doing the job An architectural firm is preparing a proposal for a large mixed-use project for which other architectural firms are competing. One of the principals, an AIA member, formerly worked for one of the competing firms, where the principal was a project architect on similar mixed-use projects. The marketing manager wants to include two of the former projects the architect worked on as evidence of experience in thecurrent proposal and feature the project with the firms's own photographs and project histories. Ethically, what is the best course of action for this firm. A. Refuse to use the projects in the proposal B. Call the competing firm and request permission to use the photographs C. List the project as experience and clearly state it was with the other firm. D. Use the photographs and project histories giving credit to the other firm - C