NAU ACC 205 END OF COURSE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The power of Congress that allows them to regulate most of the business
activity in the United States is found in the
a. Business Clause
b. Commerce Clause
c. Due Process Clause
d. First Amendment - ✔✔Commerce Clause
✔✔The "categorical imperative" to ethical issues that arise at work. This requires
that the decision maker
a. Weigh the consequences that would follow if everyone acted the same
way
b. Consider only the benefits that would accrue to them personally
c. Categorize the issues according to legality, morality, and profitability
d. Look only at the result, regardless of the means to attain it - ✔✔a. Weigh the
consequences that would follow if everyone acted the same way
✔✔Under the Constitution
a. Neither the national government nor the states have sovereign power
b. The national government has all sovereign power
c. The states have all sovereign power
d. The national government and the states share sovereign power - ✔✔d. The national
government and the states share sovereign power
✔✔The system that allows the U.S. the US president to veto a bill, Congress to
approve treaties the President wants in place, and the federal courts to review
acts of Congress is the system of?
a. Checks and balances
b. Power differential
c. Federalism
d. Due process - ✔✔checks and balances
✔✔The government decides to subsidize the religion of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster. Is this legal?
a. No because of the Free Exercise Clause
b. No because of the Establishment Clause
c. No because the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not real
d. Yes, because the government can do whatever it wants - ✔✔b. No because of the
Establishment Clause
✔✔Central City creates an ordinance to allow only energy drink stands to operate on
city streets, to reduce traffic. A court would likely review this ordinance under the
principle of:
, a. The due process clause
b. The commerce clause
c. The First Amendment clause
d. The equal protection clause - ✔✔the equal protection clause
✔✔20.Utilitarian ethics will determine that an action is morally correct when it
produces the greatest good for
a. The most people
b. The decision maker
c. The fewest people
d. The leadership of a company - ✔✔the most people
✔✔21.Preemption is the idea that
a. State regulations and federal regulations cannot exist in the same topic
area
b. Federal regulations take precedence over state regulations if there is a
conflict
c. The federal and state governments can share power over an issue
d. State regulations take precedence over federal regulations if there is a
conflict - ✔✔b. Federal regulations take precedence over state regulations if there is a
conflict
✔✔22.Which of the following is not part of the corporate social responsibility idea of the
triple bottom line?
a. Planet
b. Profits
c. Papers
d. People - ✔✔papers
✔✔23.Cisco is the president of a company and is trying to make a decision. To
evaluate several options, he looks to the mission statement of the company.
In doing this, he is completing which part of the COVER model?
a. Code
b. Outcome
c. Value
d. Editorial
e. Rule - ✔✔Value
✔✔24.The idea that corporation should do more than just maximize short term
profits and instead should be a good citizen is called
a. Corporate social responsibility
b. The corporate citizenship model
c. Duty-based ethics
d. Long-term profit maximization strategy - ✔✔corporate social responsibility
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The power of Congress that allows them to regulate most of the business
activity in the United States is found in the
a. Business Clause
b. Commerce Clause
c. Due Process Clause
d. First Amendment - ✔✔Commerce Clause
✔✔The "categorical imperative" to ethical issues that arise at work. This requires
that the decision maker
a. Weigh the consequences that would follow if everyone acted the same
way
b. Consider only the benefits that would accrue to them personally
c. Categorize the issues according to legality, morality, and profitability
d. Look only at the result, regardless of the means to attain it - ✔✔a. Weigh the
consequences that would follow if everyone acted the same way
✔✔Under the Constitution
a. Neither the national government nor the states have sovereign power
b. The national government has all sovereign power
c. The states have all sovereign power
d. The national government and the states share sovereign power - ✔✔d. The national
government and the states share sovereign power
✔✔The system that allows the U.S. the US president to veto a bill, Congress to
approve treaties the President wants in place, and the federal courts to review
acts of Congress is the system of?
a. Checks and balances
b. Power differential
c. Federalism
d. Due process - ✔✔checks and balances
✔✔The government decides to subsidize the religion of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster. Is this legal?
a. No because of the Free Exercise Clause
b. No because of the Establishment Clause
c. No because the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not real
d. Yes, because the government can do whatever it wants - ✔✔b. No because of the
Establishment Clause
✔✔Central City creates an ordinance to allow only energy drink stands to operate on
city streets, to reduce traffic. A court would likely review this ordinance under the
principle of:
, a. The due process clause
b. The commerce clause
c. The First Amendment clause
d. The equal protection clause - ✔✔the equal protection clause
✔✔20.Utilitarian ethics will determine that an action is morally correct when it
produces the greatest good for
a. The most people
b. The decision maker
c. The fewest people
d. The leadership of a company - ✔✔the most people
✔✔21.Preemption is the idea that
a. State regulations and federal regulations cannot exist in the same topic
area
b. Federal regulations take precedence over state regulations if there is a
conflict
c. The federal and state governments can share power over an issue
d. State regulations take precedence over federal regulations if there is a
conflict - ✔✔b. Federal regulations take precedence over state regulations if there is a
conflict
✔✔22.Which of the following is not part of the corporate social responsibility idea of the
triple bottom line?
a. Planet
b. Profits
c. Papers
d. People - ✔✔papers
✔✔23.Cisco is the president of a company and is trying to make a decision. To
evaluate several options, he looks to the mission statement of the company.
In doing this, he is completing which part of the COVER model?
a. Code
b. Outcome
c. Value
d. Editorial
e. Rule - ✔✔Value
✔✔24.The idea that corporation should do more than just maximize short term
profits and instead should be a good citizen is called
a. Corporate social responsibility
b. The corporate citizenship model
c. Duty-based ethics
d. Long-term profit maximization strategy - ✔✔corporate social responsibility
