MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (OUT OF ORDER) - 3rd PART - BUSINESS ECONOMICS - By Antonio Ginés
The operation that consist in that a bank advances the owner of a bill of exchange the payment before the due date is called:
Bill of exchange discount
Payment of a debt
Deferred payment
The cash conversion cycle is related with:
The fixed assets renovating cycle
The operating cycle
The financing used in the investments
The cash-flow of an investment refers to:
The difference between the revenues and the expenses of an investment
The difference between the profits and the loss of an investment
The difference between the collections and the payments of an investment
The Payback is:
The cash conversion cycle
The average time to recover an invested unity in the depreciation cycle
The time period to recover the initial investment or outlay
The bonds are:
Proportional parts of a loan
Proportional parts of the share capital
The dividends that have been paid to the shareholders
What is the IRR?
It's the profit of an investment and valued in the present time
It's the interest rate that makes the net present value equal to zero
The time period to recover an investment
What is the leasing?
A way to finance the fixed assets
An employment contract
A contract with a bank to get a loan
The running credits have the aim of:
To finance the current assets
To finance the non-current assets
None of the others is correct
The working capital is the difference between:
The long term capitals and the current assets
Current assets and current liabilities
Non-current assets and current liabilities
A premium of issuing of shares is:
The difference between the nominal value and the conversion value
The difference between the refund value and the nominal valuel
The difference between the issuing value and the nominal value
The cash conversion cycle is:
The raw material conversion period + the goods in process conversion period + the finished goods conversion period + the receivables conversion period
Only the goods in process conversion period + the finished goods conversion period
The average period to produce the goods, since the raw material go into the production process till the finished goods go out the warehouse
What is a loan?
A current account credit
A resource of external financing divided in equal parts named bonds
A loan that the businessman gives to the firm
The issuing of bonds is a financing resource that we can name:
Shareholder's equity
Long term capitals
Internal resources
You must only choose the correct answer:
The working capital is equal to the non-current assets minus the current assets
The working capital is equal to the long term capitals minus the current assets
The working capital is equal to the long term capitals minus the non-current assets
The cash conversion cycle is:
The time that we last to produce the goods in the firm
The time that the products are stored in the firm
The average length of the operating cycle
The pre-emption right exits:
Because of the loss of value of the shares of a corportation as a consequence of an increase in capital
Because of the need to guarantee the shareholders' personality by avoiding the admission of new shareholders, that the existing shareholders don't like
Because it guarantees to the corporation that increase in capital a higher revenue from the sale of new shares
When the current assets is lower than the current liabilites it is said that:
The working capital is negative
The working capital is positive
There is a financial stability
The depreciations due to the firm's assets wear:
Don't have accounting effects
Don't have an effect in the Profit and loss statement
Are entered in the books in the firm's assets with minus sign
When a firm sells its accounts receivable to another firm, we are defining:
The leasing
The bill of exchange discount
The factoring
The main characteristics of an investment are::
Ease financing
Liquidity and profitability
Liquidity, profitability and security
The cash conversion cycle is:
The average length of the operating cycle
The average length of the fixed assets
The average length of the issuing of bonds
We call book value of a share to:
The assets of a Public Limited Company (PLC) minus the net worth divided by the number of shares
The non-current assets divided by the number of shareholders
The capital of the firm plus the reserves divided by the number of shares
The factoring is:
A rent of the accounts receivable
A rent with an option to buy
The buying and selling of the accounts receivable
What are the things that define an investment?
The number of fixed assets that we buy and the number of businessman's investments
The payment of the investment, the cash-flows and the useful life of the investment
The cash-flows of the five first years and the interest rate
What are the bills of exchange?
The outcome from the sale of the products
The outcome of the purchase of raw materials
The bill of exchange
The share capital is a/an . . . financing
Equity
Internal
Mixed
The working capital is:
The paid up capital plus the reserves
The part of the non-current assets that is financed with long term resources
The part of the current assets that is financed with long term resources
We must do the transfer of invoices and, in general, the accounts receivable to a firm of:
Factoring
Leasing
Renting
The amortization is:
The amounts that we get from profits to cover the depreciation of the elements of non-current assets
A financing credit
Shareholders' investment to buy a new non-current assets
The cash-flow is:
The profit that we get from an investment
The sales minus the amortization
The difference between the collections and the payments from a investment in a certain period of time
We call book value of a share to:
The assets of a Public Limited Company (PLC) minus the net worth divided by the number of shares
The non-current assets divided by the number of shareholders
The net worth divided by the number of shares
The Internal financing resources are:
Reserves, the Net Income of the period and the Depreciations
The share capital and the issuing shares premiums
The share capital and the reserves
What of the following investment profitability Indexes can we express in years?
The Net Present Value
The Payback
The Internal Return Rate
When the working capital is negative we say that:
The Fixed assets are financed with long term resources
The Assets is higher than the Net worth plus the Liabilities
Part of the Fixed Assets are financed with Current Liabilities
What are the long term resources of a firm?
It's the current liabilities
It's the Net worth plus the non-current liabilities
It's the Fixed assets plus the non-current liabilities
The pre-emption right is:
An agreement between the shareholder and the firm to obtain the firm's products at a lower price
A compensation that is offered by the corporation, due to the possible dilution effect that could produce for the shareholder with the increasing of capital offered by the corporation
A promissory note issued by the corporation to compensate the shareholder with the possible variations of the market price of the shares
The factoring is:
The issuing of shares under par
The renting of a good with the option to buy it
The sale of some accounts receivable over a customer to other firm
The bonds are:
Parts of a loan that is taken by the issuing corporation
Part of the capital of a Public Limited Company
Resources that the own firm has created
The financing of assets by means of a renting contract with the option of buy it is called:
Leasing
Factoring
Bill of exchange discount
The liabilities are:
Those that come from the corporation's activity
Those that come from, among others, financial entities
Those that come from reserves and non distributed profits
If we told about security prices we are talking about the:
Financial Market
Stock Market
Banking Market
The working capital is the difference between:
Non-current assets minus current assets
Non-current liabilities minus current liabilities
Long term capitals minus non-current assets
If the working capital is negative:
The current assets are higher than the current liabilities
The current assets are lower than the current liabilities
The current liabilities are higher than the non-current liabilities
What of the following is an internal financing source?
The loans
The factoring
The amortizations
The main characteristics of an investment are:
Liquidity and profitability
Liquidity and security
Liquidity, profitability and security
The cash conversion cycle is:
The average length of a financial asset
The average length of a machinery
The average length of the operating cycle
A limited company has a share capital of 50,000 €, divided in shares of a nominal price of 200 €, how many shares are there in its capital?
100
500
250
A negative working capital means:
A bankruptcy of the firm
That the Net worth plus the liabilities are higher than the assets
That the current liabilities are higher than the current assets
The money used to finance the current assets are:
Running credits
Financing credits
Loans
Which of the following financing sources is an internal financing?
The increases in capital
The reserves
The factoring
The investments that start projects that the firm doesn't have made previously are:
Investments of renovation
Investments of innovation
Investments technological capital
The part of the current assets that is financed with long term capital is:
The break-even point
The solvency rate
The working capital
What is the technical amortization of the fixed asset?
The refund of the money that people have lend to us to buy the fixed asset
The estimate of the depreciation of the fixed asset
The estimate of the time that its activity in the firm will last
What is the stock exchange?
It's the place where the agricultural products are auctioned
It's the place where the long term loans are agreed
It's the place where people can buy and sell shares
The bonds are:
The passive dividends
The equal parts of a loan
The quotas to pay of a loan
The equity are:
The capital and the reserves
The capital and the current liabilities
The cash asset
A Public Limited Company use the internal financing when:
It doesn't give to the shareholders the profits of the year, and they go to reserves
It obtains a loan of a bank
The payment of the debt with the short term commercial suppliers is postponed
The leasing is an operation:
of financial renting
of banking loan
of sale of accounts receivable over customers of a bank
The shares can be issued:
At par, over par and under par
At par and over par
At par and under par
The factoring involves the sale of the firm to a financial middleman of:
Accounts receivable to obtain inmediate liquidity at a low cost
Accounts receivable to obtain inmediate liquidity at a high cost
Accounts receivable in exchange for part of the share capital of a company
We call maintenance internal financing to:
The amortizations and the provisions
The firm debts with suppliers of productive factors
Short term banking loans
In the shares that we have issued over par:
The issuing value is the same as their market value
The issuing value is higher than their theoretical value
The issuing value is higher than their nominal value
The internal financing that, at the same time, is equity are:
The reserves, the remaining, the profit of the year and the amortizations
The current account credits, the loans, the bill of exchange discount and the factoring
The share capital, subventions in capital and issuing premiums
What is the NPV?
It's the interest rate that makes the Net Present Value equal to zero
The time to recover the investment
The profit of an investment that is valued now
The working capital is zero when:
Current assets = Current liabilities
Current assets = Non-current liabilities
Non-current assets = Net worth
The productivity is:
The ratio between the profits of a period and the invested capital
The ratio between the sales of a period and the total assets
The ratio between the production of a period and the resources that we have used to obtain it
When a factor incorporates quickly to the final product, we are talking about:
Direct cost
Indirect cost
Financial cost
The cost of the car insurance for a taxi driver is:
A variable cost
A total cost
A fixed cost
The stock breaking is:
The damage of a product
The breakdown in the wharehouse
To run out the stocks of a product
The fixed costs are:
Independents of the output
All the firm's expenses
All the expenses that we have had to obtain the product
The cost occurs when:
The factors of production are bought
The purchased factors are consumed
The purchased factors of production are paid
Which of them is a variable cost?
The consumed energy
The rents
The Economic Activities Tax
The productivity is:
The ratio between the spended and the obtained money for a firm in a time period
The ratio between the output in the present period and the output that we expect get in the following period
The ratio between the obtained amount of product and the used amount of factors during a time period
The consumption of a factor that incorporates quickly to the final product, is:
A direct cost
An indirect cost
A fixed cost
The productivity is:
The ratio between the real output and the forecasted output
The incorporation of an extra value to the product
The ratio between the output and the amount of factor that we have used
In a furniture factory, the consumption of wood is:
An average fixed cost
A total cost
A variable cost
A fixed cost is:
That cost that remains independent of the production level
That cost that have a firm necessarily as the purchase of raw material
A cost that remains the same at short term and at long term
The variable costs are:
Those that depend on the output
Those that change according to the time
Those that are independent of the output
The productivity is the ratio between:
The forecasted production and the real production
The obtained production and the factors that we have used
The profit and the capital
The variable cost are:
Proportional to the output
The costs of workers without a contract of indefinite duration
Independent to the output
Variable cost are:
Those that change according to the time
Those that change according to the output
Those that don't change according to the time
The break-even point is:
The amount that the firm must produce to the revenues will be the same as the costs
The amount that the firm must produce to the revenues will be higher than the costs
The amount that the firm must produce to the revenues will be lower than the costs
In a car factory, the consumption of sheet to produce cars is:
An average fixed cost
A total cost
A variable cost
In a production process, when the profit is equal to zero, at what production level is the firm?
In the maximum production level
In the maximum sales volume
In the break-even point
How can we class the cost according to the volume of production?
Fixed and variable
Transport and storage
Direct and indirect
The ratio between the volume of production and the quantity of used factor is called:
Productivity
Return on assets
Average production
In a production process, when the profit is equal to zero, in what production level we are?
In the maximum volume of production
In the minimum cost
In the break-even point
The firm's production costs according to the volume of production are:
Fixed and variable
Real and forecasted
Direct and indirect
In a production process, the short term total costs are:
Fixed costs and opportunity costs
Fixed costs and variable costs
Amortization costs and fixed costs
In the phase of maturity of a product:
The firm's profit is increasing
The velocity of growth of the sales maintains
The sales have a strong growth
The market research aim is:
To distribute the goods that the firms produce
To give information about the market and its environment
To inform to the consumers
The elements of the marketing-mix are:
Product, price, distribution and commercial comunication
Product, price, market and sellers
Price, market, firm and product
What are the elements of a market?
The place where the market is
The different physical components that are the framework to the realization of the transactions
The buyers, the sellers, the product and the price
The personal training is:
An investment in human capital
An expense in human capital
A theory of motivation of workers
The Marketing-Mix are:
Product, price, promotion and distribution
Product, price, market and sellers
Price, market, firm and product
When can we say that a market is a bilateral monopoly?
When the same that is bought is sold
When the number of suppliers is equal to the number of demanders
When there is a supplier and a demander
A market with few suppliers and many demanders is called:
Oligopsony
Oligopoly
Perfect competition
The aim of the market research is:
To market the goods that the firm produce
To provide information about the market and its environment
None of the others is correct
The cycle of the life of the products is:
The group of physical and visible characteristics of the good or service that the firm offers
The different phases of the product since its birth until its disapearance
The group of services that are added and that complement the product
One of the following statements isn't a neccesary condition to a market can be a perfect competition market:
There is a high number of buyers and sellers
There are entry barriers in the industry
The product must be homogeneous
A oligopoly is a market in which the number of suppliers and demanders is:
Few suppliers and few demanders
Few suppliers and many demanders
One supplier and many demanders
The retailers are:
Middlemen who sell directly to the final consumer
Middlemen who buy the products in large quantities to sell them to other middlemen
Manufactures of large quantities of products
The group of physical and visible characteristics of the good or service that the firm offers is:
The tangible product
The extended product
The generic product
In the selective distribution:
The firm chooses only one middleman
The firm chooses a limited group of middlemen
The firm chooses all the possible distributors
The main variable of marketing-mix are:
Product, price, brand and distribution
Product, price, brand and commercial communication
Product, price, distribution and commercial communication
The data collected specifically to a certain research are:
Primary data
Secondary data
Tertiary data
In a oligopsony there are:
Many suppliers and few demanders
Many demanders and few suppliers
Few suppliers and few demanders
If in a market segmentation the used variable is the level of education we are using a:
Demographic variable
Socioeconomic variable
Geografic variable
The marketing-mix involves the adoption of decisions about:
The product, the price and the investment in raw material
The product, the price, promotion and distribution
The purchasing of machinery, price, product and service
The Marketing-Mix is composed by:
Product, price, communication and distribution
Product, price, market and sellers
Price, market, firm and product
In the phase of maturiry of the life of a product:
The sales increase quickly
The sales and the profits decreease a lot
The sales stabilize
The Marketing-Mix is:
A plan of action that the corporation's commercial research determinates
A plan of action that makes up decisions about product and communication
A plan of action that makes up decisions related to the product, the price, the distribution and the communication
The function that takes the firm's product to the consumers is the:
of research
Commercial
of production
The selective distribution consists in:
The manufacturer offers his products to all the possible distributors
The manufacturer has only one distributor
The manufacturer chooses a limited number of distributors
A market with only one supplier and many demanders is:
A monopoly
A monopsony
A bilateral monopoly
One of the following isn't a part of the called "four Ps" of the marketing-mix:
The product's manufacture
The place or outlet
The communication
According to the number of competitors, the markets can classify in:
Monopolistic, oligopolistic and perfect competition
Wholesaler and retailer
International, national, regional and local
A market with many demanders and only one supplier is called:
Monopoly
Monopsony
Oligopoly
Which of the following conditions doesn't belongs to a perfect competition market?
Entry/exit freedom in the market
Informative transparency
Products' differentiation
The reserves are financial resources:
External and equilty
Internal and liabilities
Internal and equity
The firm's cash conversion cycle is:
The average time that the operating cycle lasts
The time that last the fixed assets last in renew themselves
Can't divide on subperiods
In the shares issued at par:
The issuing value is the same as the market value
The issuing value is the same as the theoretical value
The issuing value is the same as the nominal value
A corporation has 6,000 shares at a nominal of 18€ nominal each one, that are quoted at 130%. What is the market value of each one?
13.00 €
18.00 €
23.40 €
What is the correct statement?
The stock exchange is the place where the firm's securities are stored
The share is the security by means the firm can sue a costumer for unpaid
The price is the resulting value of the buying and selling of a security in the stock exchange
The bonds are:
Equity securities
Constant income securities
Fixed income securities
The decisions in a Public Limited Company are taken by means of voting in the following way:
Each shareholder has a vote
Each shareholder has a number of votes according to the number of shares
Each shareholder has a vote for each bond
The payback of an investment:
Is the time that we last in recover the sum of the original investment
Is the time after which the flows begin to be positive
Is the time that lasts in amortize the fixed assets of the firm
What is the correct statement?
All the firms are profitable if they have a positive working capital
The working capital can be calculated as the subtraction between the non-current assets and the long term capitals
The working capital can be calculated as the subtraction between the current assets and the long term capitals
The amortizations are:
A external financing resource
The money that we use to pay debts
The way to indicate in the balance sheet the depreciation of some assets
The cash conversion cycle is:
The average time that the operating cycle lasts
The time that we last in renove the non-current assets
The time between a loan is applied until it is paid
The variable costs are:
Those that depend on the modifications in the supplier of the factors
Those that depend on variations in the factors' price
Those that are proportional to the output
A cost can be defined as:
Any outflow of the firm's money
The acquisition of productive factors valued in monetary unities
The consumption monetary valued of productive factors
The working capital:
Is the margin of indebtedness that a firm can reach as a maximum
Informs us about the part of the current capital that is financed with long term capitals
The other two statements are false
The quality is:
The product's characteristics than allow to satisfy the customer's expectations
A serie of characteristics that allow that the product to be easily different of the others
None of the other answers is correct
A firm increases its production from 357 unities to 642 unities, and its total costs change from 10,750€ to 12,630€, what is its marginal cost?
1,881€
6.6€
285€
For a taxi driver the cost of the diesel oil is a:
Fixed cost
Variable cost
Full cost
In the phase of maturity of the cycle of life of a product:
The expenses in promotion and ads are very high and the income obtained is lower
The sales and the profits decrease a lot
There is a stabiity of the sales and of the profits
The information obtained through a survey is:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Which of the following decisions are part of the product's policy?
The advertising and the public relations
Actions developped to study what services to offer after the sale of the products
Actions to influence on the middlemen
The distribution channel to perishable products must be:
Short
Long
Direct sale
The firm's share market is:
Annual sales/Number of customers
Firm's sales value/Sector's sales value
A product's sales/Firm's total sales
The market segmentation involves:
To identify groups of competitors with similar productive processes
To use only secondary data resources to the market research
The creation of homogeneous groups of customers according to their own needs
The wholesalers are:
Distributor that sell directly to the consumer
Middlemen that don't acquire the property of the products that they distribute
Distributors that sell to other retailers
A monopolistic market is formed by:
Only one supplier and many demanders
Many suppliers and many demanders
Few suppliers and only one demander
The firm's main function to the society is:
To create needs in the consumer
To cover costs
To detect and satisfy the consumer's needs
The multiple production consists on:
To produce several product at the same time
To obtain several products in differents productive processes
To obtain several products in only one productive process
Financially speaking, an increase in capital is:
A equity
An issuing of bonds made by the firm
An increase of the firm's machinery
The issuing value minus the nominal value is equal to the:
Refund premium
Conversion premium
Issuing premium
A negative working capital involves ...
A normal situation in the financial structure
That the net worth plus the liabilities are higher than the assets
That the curren liabilities are higher than the current assets
What are the bonds?
The businessman's debts
The businessman's duties to service his customers
Each one of the parts of a loan
Which of the following criteria of selection of investments expresses in time unities?
The Net Present Value
The payback
The Internal Rate of Return
In the moment that we create a Public Limited Company:
The shareholder's investment must be in money
The capital must be totally paid
It's compulsory to register it in the Mercantile Register
In the Public Limited Companies:
The shareholders are responsible personal and without limits from the social debts
The shareholders have a pre-emption right in the increase in capital
The capital is divided in bonds
Net Present Value is:
The price that cost to the businessman to acquire an investment
The present value of the net cash flows that the investment creates minus the initial investment
The present value that we can sell an investment
For a bank or a saving bank, the creation of a saving account for a customer is:
An active operation
A passive operation
A mediation operation
The pre-emption right is justified by:
The loss of value that the shares have after an increase in capital
The need to guaranty the right to have a dividend to the new shareholders
The corporation's duty to register the new shares
We can find, In the maintenance internal finance:
The depreciations
The long term banking loans
The firm's debts with the suppliers of productive factors
The leasing is an operation of:
Financing renting
Bill of exchange discount
Credit control
The issuing of shares premium is the difference between:
The issuing price and the nominal price
The refund price and the nominal value
The conversion value and the nominal value
What is the technical amortization of a fixed asset?
The refund of the money that we have borrowed to buy the fixed asset
The estimation of the depreciation of the fixed asset
The purchase in monthly payments of the fixed asset
What is a loan?
A banking account
A liability that consists in the issuing of bonds
A loan from the businessman to the firm
The cash conversion cycle is:
The time that lasts in renove the firm's non current assets
The average useful life of the firm's tangible fixed assets
The average time that lasts the operating cycle
In several investments projects, we would invest in the investment that:
Its NPV was zero
Its NPV was higher
Its NPV was lower
The liabilities are:
The debts with third parties that the firm must face
The reserves and the non-distributed profits
The firm's accounts receivable
The share price is:
The issuing price of the shares
The price at which the shares are purchased and sold in the stock exchange market
The theoretical value of a share according to the firm's balance sheet
What is the NPV?
The interest rate that makes equal to zero the net present value
It's the time to recover the investment
It's the difference between the initial investment and the adition of the net present cash flows
The money that we owe to the suppliers is a financing resource:
Equity and at long term
Liabilities and at short term
Liabilities and at long term
The firms want the cash consversion cycle to be:
The highest possible
The lower possible
The firms don't mind that
The dividend is:
The part of the capital that each shareholder has
The part of the profit that belongs to each share
The price of the share in the stock exchange
When we acquire the production factors that we need to produce the goods that we are going to sell appears:
The cost
The expense
The income
The main characteristic of the multiple production is:
Two or more productive factors are used
Several different products are obtained
Several productive plants are used
The variable costs ...
Are proportional to the output
Are attributed to the variable factors
Are proportional to the sales
The fixed cost is:
That cost that maintains indepent of the production level
A cost that depends on the firm's purchases
A cost that depends on the time
In a productive process, the short term is characterized because exist:
Only fixed costs
Fixed and variable costs
Only variable costs
The break even point is:
The profitability per unity of product that we have sold
The difference between the income and the financial costs
The minimum sales amount to begin to obtain profits
In a productive process, when the operating profit is equal to zero, what production level we are in?
In the maximum output
In the maximum sales
In the break even point
The costs that depend on the firm's output are:
Fixed costs
Variable costs
Indirect costs
How can we name the firm's productive costs that vary according to the output?
Variable
Real
Direct
A firm increases its productivity when:
It increases its products or services list
It sells its products and buy the necessary resources to produce them in more than a market
It increases its production according to the used resources
The retailers are:
Manufacturers of huge quantities of products
Middlemen that buy the products in huge quantities to sell them to other middlemen
Middlemen than sell directly to the final consumer
In the Marketing-mix we must decide about:
The product, the price and the investment in raw material that we need
The product, price, communication and distribution
Purchase of raw material, price, product and service
The distribution includes all the decisions and activities related with the process to take its products:
To the manufacturer
To the supplier
To the final consumer
What of the following contitions don't belong to the perfect competition market?
Entry/exit freedom in the market
There are few suppliers
Informative transparency
In the cycle of life of the product, the phase of introduction is characterized by:
The stability in the volume of sales
The decrease of the volume of sales
The slow increase of the volume of sales
The business function that creates time, place and possesion utilities is:
The production
The distribution
The communication
A share market is:
The ratio between a firm's amount of sales and the firm's total profit
The ratio between a firm's amount of sales and the sector's amount of sales