100 questions
A business that fails to protect its employees from unnecessary risk or health hazards on the job may be sued for
Libel
Misrepresentation
Negligence
Incompetence
What requirement of a legally enforceable contract requires that both of the parties who are entering into the contract are sane, sober, and of legal age?
Genuineness
Consideration
Capacity
Legality of Purpose
The owner receives all of the profits of the business and can act quickly in making business decisions when the form of business ownership is a
Corporation
Partnership
Joint Venture
Sole Proprietorship
Which of the following is the type of tax that businesses are required to collect from customers when they purchase certain goods or services:
Estate
Income
Sales
Corporate
Which of the following is a condition that must exist for channels to be effective:
Channel members must not share tasks
They must have at least five members
Channel members must have varying goals
They must be properly managed
Which of the following is a marketing function that can be performed by channel intermediaries:
Promoting products
Monitoring union activities
Training employees
Recruiting workers
A manufacturer of dish-washing soap has just invented a new type of soap that cleans better. The manufacturer should choose to distribute the soap through __________ distribution.
Intensive
Exclusive
Inclusive
Selective
What type of information does a well-written proposal include?
Vague goals
Specific benefits
Previous trends
Contingency data
There are several auto repair shops in town, but Patricia's stands out. Her auto repair shop does great work, but what really sets her shop apart is the customer service. Every customer is greeted by a friendly employee, and s/he is given snacks and drinks while s/he waits for the repairs to be completed. The great customer service that people can expect from Patricia's business is considered her
Vision
Tagline
Brand promise
Mission statement
Financial loss from investing time and money to comply with accounting standards is an example of which strategic risk:
Changing customer needs
Reputation damage
Regulatory and political issues
Obsolescence
The government's mandating the use of unleaded gas in new cars is an example of
Protecting specific business
Protecting the environment
Stabilizing the economy
Providing public goods
What type of business usually experiences economies of scale due to expanded operations?
Large manufacturing plant
Monopoly
Individual financial planner
Small local retailer
Businesspeople who respect the unique customs and habits of their foreign customers are exhibiting
Communication skills
Stereotypical behavior
Cultural sensitivity
Language differences
“Yes, you'll save money instantly” is an example of a statement with
Threatening language
An impersonal message
Persuasive words
Body language
Which of the following is a characteristic of a self-confident leader:
S/He has the ability to share a vision
S/He is truly invested in the work team
S/He is decisive, even in uncertain circumstances
S/He demonstrates empathy
Why is it important for team members to feel a sense of "ownership" and engagement in the vision?
It's the only way they will become committed to it
Leaders cannot force compliance from them
They cannot be creative otherwise
They are responsible for determining the vision
Which of the following statements is true regarding stakeholder expectations:
Each group of stakeholders has different needs and expectations
Stakeholder expectations are always financially driven
All stakeholders want to exert authority over employees
Stakeholder expectations always come second to customer needs
Julio is starting a new business, and he has formed relationships with several successful local business owners. Which of the following is the best way to leverage these relationships to help his own business succeed:
Gaining inside marketing information
Persistently asking those business owners to invest in his company
Attending trade shows and conferences to make new connections
Sharing those businesses' content on social media
Hazel started her own childcare network where she connects families to available babysitters at her school. Hazel could be described as a(n)
Direct salesperson
Franchiser
Wholesaler
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneurial business owner must
Dislike business planning
Be independently wealthy
Desire regular 40-hour work week
Have an adventurous spirit
What is one reason that it is easier than ever for small businesses to engage in international trade?
Decreasing international middle class
Technological advances
Language barries
Increased regulation
Which of the following is a global trend that might encourage an entrepreneur to consider international business opportunities:
Higher allowances
Lower tariffs
Enforceable trade agreements
Flexible currency rates
Mara is facilitating a group brainstorming session to generate new product ideas for the company. Which of the following attitudes is important for Mara to demonstrate?
Judgmental
Neutral
Passive
Authoritarian
Landon wants to start a home-based T-shirt printing business. Which of the following are the most critical equipment and supplies that Landon will need to get his business up and running?
T-shirts, thread, and display cases
Printing machine, display cases, and T-shirts
Artwork, T-shirts, and thread
T-shirts, printing machine, and artwork
A small-business owner might register for trademark protection for the company's
Computer software
Invention
Trade secret
Logo
. Evan does not want the legal obligation of repaying a loan and is willing to share profits with others. Which of the following options is Evan most likely to select to fund a new venture:
Private equity
Collateral savings
Trade credit
Community bank
What is a primary factor that small-business owners should consider when deciding to hire additional staff members?
Interview techniques
Payroll expenses
Training methods
Product standards
Al is thinking about moving his company's headquarters to another city, which would be expensive but closer to the raw materials needed for manufacturing. The benefit in moving is
Demand
Proximity
Feasibility
Independence
All of a firm's activities and how they function in relation to one another are known as
Business operations
Efficiency standards
Communication goals
Desired outputs
Because the MBC Company has one location that services the eastern part of the country and another location that services the western part of the country, the company's work flow is organized by
Relationship
Work teams
Authority
Territory
Looking at problems from various points of view helps a small-business owner develop
Practical arguments
Creative solutions
Unnecessary conflicts
Unpredictable results
Ellen wants to step back from the day-to-day activities of running her company. She decides to take the company to another level by selling public stock. One way Ellen can stay involved in the company is by
Arranging a tactical acquisition
Appointing a family member as president
Serving on the board of directors
Hiring her successor
Which of the following categories of information are found on a balance sheet:
Income, expenditures, profit
Assets, liabilities, owner's equity
Assets, liabilities, margin
Revenues, expenses, profit
The balance sheet has a close relationship with the company's
Mortgage
Income statement
Fair market value
Statement of financial position
Which of the following phrases effectively describes a business's income statement:
Income preview
Budget estimate
Cash-flow report
Financial picture
Managerial accounting differs from financial accounting because managerial accounting
Helps people within a business rather than outside of the organization
Does not focus on planning and budgeting
Is governed by federal regulation
Has less impact on decision-making
One reason why banks might be reluctant to lend money to a start-up business is because the business
Has a solid business plan
Will not have collateral
Has no record of repaying loans
Must incorporate first
When a business has been running successfully for several years, what would be a probable next financial step?
Purchasing a second location
Acquiring start-up funds
Deciding on financial goals
Determining product prices
Marginal analysis is a cost/benefit decision process that seeks to determine
The best qualities to look for in potential employees
How a manager can cut costs
The likely returns on a new investment
Profit-maximizing quantity of output
Which of the following financial analysis methods is used to show the relationship of each component to the total within a single financial statement:
Fundamental analysis
Horizontal analysis
Industry analysis
Vertical analysis
An example of an operating expense that is included in a business's income statement is
Inventory
Purchases
Commissions
Allowances
What sales forecasting technique creates accurate forecasts for individual products?
Sales force composite
Delphi
Survey of buyer intentions
Jury of executive opinion
What staffing activity involves seeking out and attracting qualified potential job candidates?
Training
Recruiting
On-boarding
Interviewing
To screen job applications and employment résumés, a business might use computer software that conducts text searches to scan for
Typographical errors
Salary requirements
Numerical ratings
Key words
Which of the following is a benefit of hiring the right employee for a job:
Increased employee turnover
Increased risk of poor job performance
Decrease employee morale
Decrease cost of selection
One of the advantages to businesses of training staff is that it tends to increase
Employee satisfaction
Operating expense
Compensation
Feedback
Which of the following is an example of an employee complaint that is related to a coworker:
Sam complains to his production manager that the new materials are jamming the equipment
Kelly advises Joe that a flaw in the computer system is creating inefficiencies in her department
Ann tells her boss that Brad talks loudly on the phone and distracts her ability to focus on work
Mario confides in Paige that he disagrees with the wage freeze that the company has instituted
XYZ Company is interested in developing, producing, and selling a new product. Before it does so, the company spends six months conducting marketing research. What are the primary advantages of this course of action?
To delay the production process and increase labor costs
To increase costs and determine consumer dislikes
To predict trends and provide information to customers
To determine customer preferences and minimize losses
Which of the following is essential to all marketing research:
Frequency
Primary data
Accuracy
Secondary data
The marketing function that helps marketers make decisions about what and to whom to sell is
Marketing-information management
Product/service management
Transportation
Promotion
A neighborhood grocery store has added a bakery. What element of marketing should the store use to attract customers from surrounding areas?
Product
Price
Place
Promotion
In order for a market to exist, consumers must have an unfulfilled desire for a product and
Know who makes the product
Know where the product is sold
Have financial resources
Have a specific brand preference
An important criterion to consider when identifying market segments is the __________ of the market.
Age
Size
Gender
Occupation
What is a potential weakness a manager might identify in a SWOT analysis?
High-quality products
Lack of management depth
Competitors failing
Low-cost foreign competition
As part of their marketing plans, what do businesses develop first that are intended to lead to increased sales and revenue?
Objectives
Strategies
Tactics
Activities
Which of the following is a specification that a business might establish for selecting spreadsheet software programs:
Electronically communicate data
Graphically display financial information
Regularly organize customer information
Digitally produce marketing data
How long are businesses required to keep their records?
On seasonal basis
Varies greatly
Indefinitely
One year
Businesses often conduct environmental scans to determine if they should
Make staffing adjustments
Expand into other markets
Follow government regulations
Improve their computer systems
What is a benefit to a tour operator who makes business decisions by analyzing statistical information?
Improved preformance
Lower demand
Increased competition
Lower outputs
Because operations managers control so much of a business's money, they must focus on
Keeping costs low
Hiring the best employees
Creating effective advertising campaigns
Generating publicity
Obtaining goods that will satisfy the needs and wants of a business's customers is a function of
Advertising
Selling
Marketing
Purchasing
Why is it important for businesses to have efficient production?
To be competitive
To remaine flexible
To pay employees
To buy resources
What do managers need to do to develop and maintain the level of quality that customers expect?
Obtaining industry information
Monitor all aspects of the business
Consider the type of competition
Prepare an operating budget
Expenses such as payroll and rent that are necessary to the running of a business are called __________ expenses.
Operating
Fixed
Varible
Liability
A business negotiates a two-year lease on 2,250 square feet of space for $2.60 per square foot with an option on a third year at a 5% increase in rent. What will the monthly rent be if the business extends the lease for a third year?
$6,265.50
$5,976
$5,850
$6,142.50
Most companies budgets are based on
Net profit
Expenses
Sales
Gross profit
Which of the following situations would supply chain managers encounter during the final stage of supply chain management:
A customer returns a defective product
The company finds reliable suppliers
The business plans to deliver goods to customers
Managers develop a supply chain strategy
What is Claire doing when she reviews a report that compares the purchase transactions of the company's four largest customers?
Conducting a sale analysis
Preparing a purchasing forecast
Organizing an inventory report
Analyzing services performance
Business process thinking is meant to help companies
Achieve goals and serve customers
Hire employees and fill roles
Process payroll and compensate employees
Enforce safety standards
When bottlenecks in business processes develop that cause a company to miss deadlines and waste resources, an effective manager would most likely choose to
Invest in quality control
Redesign the business processes
Implement an employee incentive program
Speed up production
One of the main external factors that may cause a firm to change its business processes is
Desire for growth
Competition
Low employee morale
High operating costs
Sandra is a manager at a distribution plant. Lately, her customers have been complaining about timely deliveries. Which area of the business does Sandra need to focus on to ensure on-time delivery?
The sale force
Inventory control
Supply chain management
Production
Which step of the decision-making model involves identifying what you want to do?
Gathering the information you need
Establishing decisions criteria
Determining what you need to know
Pinpointing your objective
Which of the following is a benefit of corporate governance:
It encourages transparency
It decreases investor confidence
It creates a less definable brand
It maximizes corruption
Members of a board of directors are
Required to be stockholders
Elected by stockholders
A business's vendors
Not able to make decisions
Which of the following most likely led to a greater emphasis on governance structures in recent years:
New technology in the industry
Competitor saturation
Stock market crash
Accounting fraud
Performances standards should be
Informally discussed
Subjective
Measurable
Extremely challenging
Product pricing is affected by transportation costs, which are factors related to the marketing element of
Competition
Promotion
Place
Selling
Companies X, Y, and Z determine the selling price of widgets because these companies are the only ones who market widgets. This is an example of
Monopolistic competition
An oligopolistic market
Pure competition
A true monopoly
When evaluating customers' experiences, a company should keep in mind that customers are most often influenced by their interactions with the company's
Negotiation committee
Supplies
Labor union
Employees
Having a narrow product mix allows a company to
Specialize in specific product lines
Mass market its products
Produce less efficiently
Appeal to customers with a variety of needs
Ways that a business's website can provide customer-service support are by offering
Chat rooms, account numbers, and financial information
Free delivery, email options, and credit authorizations
Product/service updates, FAQs page, and an online help desk
Online billing, sales reports, and toll-free telephone number
When a business offers services such as an information desk, child-friendly restrooms, and a lost-and-found department, it is providing customers with __________ services.
Shopping
Convenience
Community
Impulse
Which of the following is one of the main functions of promotion in the advertising industry:
Marketing
Persuading
Branding
Retailing
Which of the following media could increase a business's sales by reaching people who are driving home from work:
Publicity
Advertising
Radio
Mark doesn't have much money to promote his new restaurant, so he focuses on inviting a few customers in for a special dinner in hopes that they will post favorable reviews online and tell their family and friends about their great meals. Mark is using __________ marketing.
Broadcast
Direct mail
Grassroots
Cause
Businesses often use direct advertising strategies because
The promotional message reaches a larger group of people
They can select and reach qualified prospects
Direct advertising is less expensive than other forms of promotion
It reduces the need to include other elements in the promotional mix
The Skintastic Cosmetic Company implemented a challenging sales promotion in which its independent sales consultants could earn bonuses, prizes, and vacations. This is an example of a company using __________ as a sales incentive
Sweepskates
Push money
Cooperative advertising
Loyalty programs
The use of communications channels in public relations activities is an important part of
Advertising an image
Marketing products
Providing information
Targeting customers
Francine likes the auto shop where she takes her car for an oil change because it has a comfortable waiting room with good magazines. This illustrates which important characteristic of quality service providers?
Responsiveness
Reliability
Tangibles
Assurance
Which of the following is a true statement regarding the relationship between risk and business objectives:
Risks help businesses determine objectives
Objectives should never be modified because of risk
Effective business objectives are not risky
The more objectives a business has, the less risk it faces
Tyrese and his team are creating a list of their company's critical enterprise-wide risks. They are compiling
A risk control
A risk assessment
enterprise risk managment
A risk inventory
Which of the following situations is most likely to result in long-term, increased sales for a business:
Raising the price of its current products
Constantly providing new choices for consumers
Lowering the price of its current products
Eliminating a slow-selling product line
Which of the following is an example of a company objective that might be developed by top management:
To improve the collection process
To maintain or increase market share
To maintain the billing cycle
To hold weekly sales meetings
A business should consider the impact that changes in the environment will have on the business's marketing mix because
Most businesses want to be reactive
The business can change its marketing mix
The marketing mix is affected by technology
Government regulations can increase costs
Which component of the business plan requires considerable time and external research?
Market analysis
Executive summary
Strategy and implementation
Appendices
What company has the highest sales-to-receivables ratio based on the following information: Company A has sales of $250,000 and accounts receivable of $20,000; Company B has sales of $275,000 and accounts receivable of $25,000; Company C has sales of $300,000 and accounts receivable of $30,000; and Company D has sales of $290,000 and accounts receivable of $32,000.
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company D
Why is it important to track the performance of a business plan?
To establish an operating strategy
To find out if products are selling
To determine its proposed mission
To provide investment information
For successful innovation to occur, employees must be willing to __________ while developing ideas
Learn
Teach
Avoid results
Work alone
If a company wants to ensure that changes are implemented in the best possible way and that those changes will lead to long-term benefits, it should use the __________ approach.
Change avoidance
Problem solving
Change management
Solution finding