Ünite Sınavı Soruları

Which of the following is true about "Strategic budgets"?

I- Increasing the sales by 10% in the first quarter.

II- Improving the quality of goods and services that the firm produces by the end of this year.

III- Improving the customer loyalty by 5% by the end of the year.

Which ones of the above are considered a successful performance standard statement?

1. The strategic control process 
2. Tactical control 
3. Operational control 

1. is closely related to strategic planning process.
2. is the assessment and regulation of the day-to-day functions of the organization and its major units during the implementation of its strategies.
3. regulates the activities or methods an organization uses to produce the goods and services it supplies to its customers.

Which alternative gives the correct matches?

Which of the following is not one of the components that work to support the achievement of an entity’s mission, strategies, and related business objectives?

Continuous improvement, Six Sigma principles, benchmarking and reduced cycle time are some of the techniques used in ...............?

Which of the following is not one of the components at the planning stage of Planning-Control Link?

1. The master budget 
2. The operating budget 
3. The capital expenditures budget 
4. The financial budget 

1. includes three separate but interdependent budgets: the operating budget; the capital expenditures budget; and the financial budget.
2. is a set of budgets that forecast revenues and expenses such as sales revenue, cost of goods sold, and operating expenses.
3. presents a company’s plan for projects and long-term assets such as purchases of property, plant equipment, and other long-term assets.
4. lays out how an organization will acquire its cash and how it intends to use the cash.

Which of the alternatives gives the correct matches?

Which of the following examines the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls and makes recommendations where control improvements are needed?

Which of the following refers to a management control system that enables organizations to clarify their vision and strategy and translate them into action?

Which alternative gives the correct definition of "Deviation"?

I- It is one of popular approaches based on a decentralized control philosophy.

II- It builds on continuous improvement of products and processes.

III- It emphasizes that quality inspection is in all processes and at all stages of production or service output.

IV- TQM emphasizes the importance of each manager in the company and requires a commitment from managers at all levels.

Which ones of the above statement are correct with regard to the TQM approach?

Which of the following is  NOT one of the steps that the basic control process involves?

1. budgetary control
2. financial controls 
3. break-even analysis
4. activity-based costing
5. just-in-time inventory control
6. total quality management

Which of the alternatives gives the most common tools and techniques for controlling?

.......................................is a set of budgets that forecast revenues and expenses such as sales revenue, cost of goods sold, and operating expenses.

Which of the following completes the sentence above correctly?

1. Behavioral controls involve the direct evaluation of managerial and employee decision making, not the results of managerial decisions.
2. Behavior control is based on manager observation of employee actions to see whether the individual follows desired procedures and performs tasks as structured.
3. Outcome control is based on monitoring and rewarding results, and managers might pay little attention to how results are obtained.
4. With outcome control, managers don’t superviseemployees in thetraditional sense.

Which of the alternatives gives the correct information about department level control?

Company A is having problems with the profitability of Service X and hoping to bring a new service, Service Y, to the market. What types of managerial control would you recommend to Company A to (1) increase the profitability of Services X and (2) to ensure a smooth entry to the market for Service Y?   

What are two different approaches to evaluating and controlling a team or individual performance and allocating rewards?

1. establish standards and methods to measure performance,
2. measure performance,
3. compare the actual performance with the established standards, whether performance matches the standard 
4. take corrective action as needed.

Which alternative gives the correct order of the steps in the basic control process?

............... is a process, effected by an entity’s board of directors, management, and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives relating to operations, reporting, and compliance?