BUSI 490 - Chapter 8: Implementing Strategies: Marketing, Finance/Accounting, R&D, and MIS Issues correctly answered to pass

BUSI 490 - Chapter 8: Implementing Strategies: Marketing, Finance/Accounting, R&D, and MIS IssuesBook value (p. 268) - correct answer The number of shares outstanding times stock price. Business analytics (p. 272) - correct answer An MIS technique designed to analyze huge volumes of data to help executives make decisions; sometimes called predictive analytics or data mining. Cash budget (p. 264) - correct answer The most common type of financial budget; developed to forecast future receipts and disbursements of cash in operations, investments, and financing. Data mining (p. 272) - correct answer Analyzing huge volumes of information in order to determine trends and garner information to make decision making more effective. Demand void (p. 253) - correct answer Areas in a perceptual map where there is not a cluster of ideal points indicating an unattractive group of potential customers. Discount (p. 268) - correct answer If an acquiring firm pays less for another firm than the firm's stock price times its # of shares of stock outstanding (book value or market value), then that # less the actual purchase price is called a discount. EPS/EBIT analysis (p. 255) - correct answer A financial technique to determine whether debt, stock, or a combination of debt and stock is the best alternative for raising capital to implement strategies. Financial budget (p. 263) - correct answer A financial document that details/reveals how funds will be obtained and spent for a specified period of time in the future.