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BSG COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM 2026/2027
BANK COMPLETE CURRENT TESTING
QUESTION AND DETAILED CORRECT ANSWER
(VERIFIED) GUARANTEED PASS/TOP-RATED A+.
BSG
Maximize your success on the BSG (Business Strategy Game)
Comprehensive Final Exam with focused preparation that
strengthens your understanding of competitive decision-
making, financial analysis, and long-term strategic planning in a
simulated business environment. This exam is specifically
designed for students to demonstrate mastery of integrated
strategy execution and performance evaluation.
Q: Which one of the following is a way to reduce costs and
strive to achieve a competitive advantage based on lower
overall costs per pair sold than rival companies? ......
ANSWER ....... A: Striving to keep marketing expenses
per branded pair sold to amounts that are below the
industry-high in each region ✓
Q: Which one of the following is most likely to be an effective
or attractive profit-enhancing way to try to reduce total
production costs per pair at a particular production facility?
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...... ANSWER ....... A: Pursuing actions that will better
enable the company to operate its production facilities at
(or very close to) full production capacity, including
maximum use of overtime ✓
Q: The managers of all companies should make a point of
examining the production benchmarks shown on p. 6 of
each year's Footwear Industry Report in order to... ......
ANSWER ....... A: determine whether immediate actions
need to be taken at one or more of their company's
production facilities to do a better job of managing total
compensation, workforce productivity, production labor
costs, spending for TQM/Six Sigma programs, total
production costs, and/or reject rates. ✓
Q: Which one of the following is an advantage of having
production facilities to manufacture athletic footwear in all
four geographic regions? ...... ANSWER ....... A: Increased
ability to lower expenditures for shipping/freight costs
from the company's production operations to distribution
centers in the various regions--this is because when a
company has production operations in all four
geographic regions it typically needs to ship fewer pairs
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of footwear from production facilities in one region to
distribution centers in a different region ✓
Q: An appealing strategy that a company can use to reduce
its exposure to adverse exchange rate adjustments to the
costs of pairs shipped to a distribution warehouse from a
production facility in a different geographic region is to...
...... ANSWER ....... A: invest in sufficient production
capacity in each of the four geographic regions to greatly
reduce (maybe even eliminate) the need to ship pairs to a
distribution warehouse from a production facility in a
different geographic region--such a strategy has the
highly attractive added benefit of cutting/eliminating
tariff payments on imported footwear. ✓
Q: Which one of the following actions is least likely to
increase labor productivity by an amount that is large
enough to result in lower labor costs per pair produced at a
particular plant? ...... ANSWER ....... A: Increasing total
compensation per production worker to an amount that
is slightly above the industry-average in those regions
where the company has production facilities ✓
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Q: The installation of production improvement option D
which boosts worker productivity by 50% by using robots to
assist in producing footwear... ...... ANSWER ....... A: is a
more economically attractive means for reducing labor
costs per pair produced at a production facility in North
America than for a production facility in the Asia-Pacific.
✓
Q: Valid reasons why a company should definitely open a
new production facility in Latin America include... ......
ANSWER ....... A: being able to avoid paying import tariffs
on footwear produced and sold in Latin America;
moreover, the freight costs on pairs shipped from a
production facility in Latin America to the Latin American
distribution center are lower than the freight costs on
pairs shipped from production facilities outside Latin
America to the Latin American distribution center. ✓
Q: Which of the following is a valid reason or strong signal
that a company should consider changing from a low-
cost/low-price strategy for branded footwear to a different
strategy? ...... ANSWER ....... A: The company's total
production costs per branded pair, distribution and
warehouse costs per branded pair available for sale, and
BSG COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM 2026/2027
BANK COMPLETE CURRENT TESTING
QUESTION AND DETAILED CORRECT ANSWER
(VERIFIED) GUARANTEED PASS/TOP-RATED A+.
BSG
Maximize your success on the BSG (Business Strategy Game)
Comprehensive Final Exam with focused preparation that
strengthens your understanding of competitive decision-
making, financial analysis, and long-term strategic planning in a
simulated business environment. This exam is specifically
designed for students to demonstrate mastery of integrated
strategy execution and performance evaluation.
Q: Which one of the following is a way to reduce costs and
strive to achieve a competitive advantage based on lower
overall costs per pair sold than rival companies? ......
ANSWER ....... A: Striving to keep marketing expenses
per branded pair sold to amounts that are below the
industry-high in each region ✓
Q: Which one of the following is most likely to be an effective
or attractive profit-enhancing way to try to reduce total
production costs per pair at a particular production facility?
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...... ANSWER ....... A: Pursuing actions that will better
enable the company to operate its production facilities at
(or very close to) full production capacity, including
maximum use of overtime ✓
Q: The managers of all companies should make a point of
examining the production benchmarks shown on p. 6 of
each year's Footwear Industry Report in order to... ......
ANSWER ....... A: determine whether immediate actions
need to be taken at one or more of their company's
production facilities to do a better job of managing total
compensation, workforce productivity, production labor
costs, spending for TQM/Six Sigma programs, total
production costs, and/or reject rates. ✓
Q: Which one of the following is an advantage of having
production facilities to manufacture athletic footwear in all
four geographic regions? ...... ANSWER ....... A: Increased
ability to lower expenditures for shipping/freight costs
from the company's production operations to distribution
centers in the various regions--this is because when a
company has production operations in all four
geographic regions it typically needs to ship fewer pairs
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of footwear from production facilities in one region to
distribution centers in a different region ✓
Q: An appealing strategy that a company can use to reduce
its exposure to adverse exchange rate adjustments to the
costs of pairs shipped to a distribution warehouse from a
production facility in a different geographic region is to...
...... ANSWER ....... A: invest in sufficient production
capacity in each of the four geographic regions to greatly
reduce (maybe even eliminate) the need to ship pairs to a
distribution warehouse from a production facility in a
different geographic region--such a strategy has the
highly attractive added benefit of cutting/eliminating
tariff payments on imported footwear. ✓
Q: Which one of the following actions is least likely to
increase labor productivity by an amount that is large
enough to result in lower labor costs per pair produced at a
particular plant? ...... ANSWER ....... A: Increasing total
compensation per production worker to an amount that
is slightly above the industry-average in those regions
where the company has production facilities ✓
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Q: The installation of production improvement option D
which boosts worker productivity by 50% by using robots to
assist in producing footwear... ...... ANSWER ....... A: is a
more economically attractive means for reducing labor
costs per pair produced at a production facility in North
America than for a production facility in the Asia-Pacific.
✓
Q: Valid reasons why a company should definitely open a
new production facility in Latin America include... ......
ANSWER ....... A: being able to avoid paying import tariffs
on footwear produced and sold in Latin America;
moreover, the freight costs on pairs shipped from a
production facility in Latin America to the Latin American
distribution center are lower than the freight costs on
pairs shipped from production facilities outside Latin
America to the Latin American distribution center. ✓
Q: Which of the following is a valid reason or strong signal
that a company should consider changing from a low-
cost/low-price strategy for branded footwear to a different
strategy? ...... ANSWER ....... A: The company's total
production costs per branded pair, distribution and
warehouse costs per branded pair available for sale, and
