MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (OUT OF ORDER) - 3rd PART (B) - BUSINESS ECONOMICS - By Antonio Ginés
The oligopsony is characterized by:
Many suppliers and few demanders
Few suppliers and few demanders
Few suppliers and only one demander
The group of activities that a firm develops to know what are the consumer's needs and to create the goods and the services that we need to satisfy them, is named:
Production
Distribution
Marketing
Share market is:
The ratio between the firm's amount of sales and its profits
The difference between the firm's amount of sales and the firm's amount of purchases
The ratio between the firm's amount of sales and the sector's amount of sales
A market with many suppliers and only one demander is:
A oligopoly
A monopsony
Perfect competition
The division of the customers in groups with homogeneous needs, is named:
Segmentation
Marketing
Positioning
The issuing of shares is a type of financing:
External and at medium and long term
External and at short term
Internal
The maintenance internal finance is formed by:
The depreciations and the reserves
The depreciations and the provisions
The reserves
To bring the net cash flows to the present moment and to obtain the present value in this moment, is named:
Interest rate or discount
Payback
Net Present Value
If the working capital is negative:
The equity is lower than the liabilities
The firm is in bankrupcy
The non-current assets are higher than the long term financing
The firm's cash conversion cycle is:
The average time that lasts the operating cycle
The time between the moment that we obtain the long term loan until we repaid it
The time that we last in paying the non-current assets
When a bond, whose nominal value is 60€, is issuing at 55€ it is said that the issuing was:
At par
Under par
Over par
The issuing of accounts receivable over customers to a financial middleman is named:
Factoring
Bill of exchange discount
Banking loan
What is the sale of shares at par?
That the sales price is higher than the nominal price
That the sales price is lower than the nominal price
That the sales price is equal to the nominal price
Liabilities are:
The loans
The accounts receivable over customers
The legal reserve
The Public Limited Companies' shareholders:
Are responsible personal and unlimitedly with all their personal assets for the company's debts
Don't have any pre-emption rights in the issuing of new shares
None of the others is true
When the contract of leasing finishes:
The lessee must buy the good
The leasing company is free to sell the good to anyone
The lessee has the option of buying the good
Factoring is:
To lend a production factor to the develop of the productive process
To stop the amounts receivable over customers to a specialized firm
None of the others is correct
What is the working capital?
The sum of the depreciation of the fixed assets
The sum of the non distributed earnings
The excess of the current assets over the short term debts
The working capital is:
Current assets - Current liabilities
Current assets + Current liabilities
Non-curren assets - Current liabilities
The internal rate of return criteria accepts the investment if:
The interest rate is higher than the internal rate of return
The interest rate is lower than the internal rate of return
Always the outcome is positive
What is the equity?
It's those that is given by the businessman
It's those than is given by the customers
It's those than is given by the banks
What is the break even point?
The production level that allow us to get the maximun technical
The production level that we obtain in a full working day
The production level in which the total incomes are equal to the total costs
The productivity is the ratio between:
The volume of production and the amount of factors uses to obtain it
The profit and the invested capital
The cash and the total liabilities
The fixed cost is:
That cost that necessarily has a firm, as the purchase of raw material
That cost that maintains independent of the production level
That which is proportional to the output
The average variable cost are:
The unit variable costs for the number of produced unities
The variable costs plus the fixed costs
The total variable costs divided by the number of produced unities
What is the stock breaking?
The stock level to do a new order
To run out the stocks in the warehouse
None of the others is correct
When we obtain several products in only one production process we are talking about:
Simple production
Lineal production
Multiple production
A firm's break even point is:
The point at which the income of the last sold unity is maximum
The volumen of sales that we need to cover the firm's total costs
The point at which is the maximum of the average total cost
The marketing-mix policies are:
Product, distribution, communication and price policies
Product, distribution, price and sale policies
Product, planning, communication and price policies
The segmentation is:
A process to divide the market in homogeneous sub-groups
A channel of direct distribution
An exchange model
The phase of growth fo the cycle of life of the product is:
When we obtain the highest business and profits volume
When the sales volume is high but the profits decrease
When the sales increase
A product distribution is an activity of the function of:
Production
Commercialization
Management
What of the following belongs to the perfect competition?
Entry/exit freedom
The price tends to be high
The goods aren't homogeneous
The marketing-mix variables are:
Invoicing, price, brand and distribution
Advertising, price, brand and commercial communication
Product, price, distribution and commercial communication
The phases of the cycle of life of the product are:
Introduction, growth and decline
Introduction, growth, maturity and decline
Introduction and decline
According to the number of suppliers and demanders, the markets can classify in:
Free and controlled markets
Monopolies, oligopolies and perfect competition
Consumer markets and industrial markets
To determine a firm's share market we need know:
The firm and de sector's profitability
The firm and sector's sales
The firm's profitability
An oligopoly has:
Many buyers and few sellers
The firm and sector's sales
The firm's profitability
A monopoly has:
Few suppliers and many demanders
Few suppliers and only one demander
Many demanders and only one supplier
External financing at long term are:
The company's profits and the amortizations
The share capital and the issuing of shares premiums
The reserves
The payback:
Is a liquidity criteria
Is a profitability criteria
Is a productivity criteria
The difference between the collections and the payments is named:
Initial investment
Cash-flow
NPV
The pre-emption right in the increase of capital:
Isn't transmissible, only the existing shareholder can use it and can't be sold
People can buy or sell it
Is forbidden by law
A financial leasing is:
A credit account that works as a current account
A financing renting with option to buy the asset
The handing over of the customers' debts to the bank to give us the money in advance and to manage them
The new economy:
Is a new way to do economics as a science
Is a new economics reality that has important changes
Is a way to understand the business economics
When the working capital is negative:
The curren assets are higher than the current liabilites
The firms is in bankruptcy
The non current assets are higher than the long term capitals
The share capital is a financing resource:
Equity and internal
Liabilities and at long term
Equity and external
The money that we owe to the suppliers are:
Maintenance finance
Liabilities
Internal financing
The payback is:
The period of time in which the investment incomes are the same as the initial investment
The interest rate or discount that makes the present value equal to zero
The difference between an investment collection and the the payment of this investment at that moment
The current account credit:
Is the automatic financing that the firm gets when it make a debt for the purchases to its suppliers
The firm borrow some money to a financial entity to cover its needs and after a time it repay it with its interest
Is the financing that the firm gets from a financial entity to predict possible needs but unknowing the exact amount that the firm is going to need
A negative working capital means:
That a part of the non-current assets would be financed with current liabilities
That a part of the current assets would be financed with non-current liabilites
That a part of the non-current assets would be financed with non-current liabilities
How is called a way of business financing that consist in selling all the accounts receivable over customers to other firm?
Vending
Factoring
Renting
The bill of exchange discount represents a financial instrument through which:
A bank advances the amount of a bill of exchange signed for a firm's customer with a future due date, discounting a commission
A bank advances the amount of a invoice and in exchange discounting a commission for the assumed risk
A bank advances the amount of a invoice in exchange of a share of the firm's profits
What are the liabilities?
They are the financing provided by the businessman
They are the financing provided by the customers
They are the financing provided by banks and other creditors
What is the factoring?
It's to transfer accounts receivable over customers to other firm
It's one of the factors of production
It's the group of invoices that a firm has to receive payment
The fixed costs
Depend on the output
Don't depend on the output
Depend on the volume of sales
The break even point is the minimum amount that a firm must produce and sell:
To it begin to obtain profits
To it begin its activity
To it invoice at the maximum level
The break even point is:
The cut-off point of the curve of variable costs and the total revenue
The amount of sales from which the profits begin
The amount of sales from which the cost are zero
The break even point is:
The ratio between the net profit and the equity
The output which from the firm begin to obtain profits
The yield of the assets
The firms that have a multiple production process are those that show:
The transformation than doesn't need continuity
The obtaining of several different products
The integration of the different firm's elements in multiple industrial plants
The variable costs are:
Those that are independent from the output
Those that depend on the variations in the price of the factors
Those that are proportional to the output
What of the following concepts isn't a firm's output?:
Products
Dividends
Work
How can we classify the costs according to their allocation to the product:
Fixed and variable costs
Transport and wharehousing costs
Direct and indirect costs
A perfect competition market is:
That one with a supplier and a demander
That one with many suppliers and many demanders and with a homogeneous product
That one with many suppliers and only one demander
The ratio between the firm's sales and the sector's sales is named:
Profitability
Productivity
Share market
The promotion that is made in the point of sale is called:
Marketing-mix
Direct marketing
Merchandising
The product, price, distribution and promotion:
Are the commercialization system
Are variables of which combination is known as marketing-mix
Are the production system
In a monopoly are:
Many suppliers and few demanders
A supplier and many demanders
Many suppliers and many demanders with homogeneous products
The function of distribution consists in:
The group of operations made to bring the products closer the buyers
The establishment of prices
The group of activities made to inform and persuade the consumers
A market isn't a perfect competition market:
If there are few sellers and many buyers
If the information is perfect
If the products are homogeneous
In the phase of maturity of the cycle of life of the product:
The sales stabilize
There is a height in the promotional campaign
More competitive products appear
The Marketing-mix is formed by:
The product, the price, the public relations and the advertising
The product, price, communication and distribution
Promotion, price, product and service
The aim of the market research is:
To market the goods that the firms manufacture
To provide information about the market and its environment
To improve the quality of the sold product
A market segmentation is:
A ratio between a firm's sales and the sector's sales
The quantity of unities that a group of firms market of the same product, but in a certain area
The group of consumers that demand a product with similar characteristics
The marketing-mix elements are:
Product, price, production and distribution
Product, price, distribution and sale
Product, price, promotion and distribution
In an oligopoly:
There are few suppliers and many demanders
There are many demanders and only one supplier
There are few suppliers and only one demander
A market research consists in:
To collect data of the specific environment
To analize the consumers
To collect, make and analize information about the environment, the competition and the consumers
The reserves:
Are paid by the shareholders as the share capital
Are part of the liabilities
Are the firm's internal financing
If when we want to select an investment, the firm's more important criteria is the liquidity, we'll choose the investment:
With the lowest payback
With the highest NPV
With the highest payback
The cash conversion cycle refers at:
The length of the cycle of life of a product
The average length of the operating cycle
The time that a new product lasts in get consolidation in the market
In the shares we can talk about:
Nominal value and theoretical value
Market value and productive value
Nominal value and net value
What is a financial asset?
A worker of the bank or of the insurance sectors
A fixed asset, as the buildings and the lands
A document issued by entities that need financing and that represents a debt or a property right
A share differs from a bond in:
That the bond gives right to vote in the shareholders' meeting and the share doesn't
That the share is an equal part of the share capital and the bond is an equal part of a debt
None difference exists between shares and bonds
The main characteristics of an investment are:
Liquidity, profitability and sociability
Liquidity, profitability and risk
Liquidity, profitability and balance
In the called "new economy":
It appears a new age that is based in the high importance that the products quality acquires
The economic reality is characterized by big changes due to the utilisation of the new technologies
The information is lossing importance
3.09_08.- The information and communication technologies (ICT):
As they require a high investment, they are viable only for the big firms
They have importance only in the big multinationals
They represent a strong competitive advantage for all the firms
The payback is:
The time period that we need to recover the initial investment of a project
The time period to recover the first monetary unity invested in the project
The average time period to be paid from the customers
When the Current Assets are lower than the Current Liabilities:
The working capital is negative
The working capital is negligible
The working capital is positive
What is the IRR?
The relative profitability of an investment project
The interest rate that makes the NPV to be higher than zero
The necessary time to recover an investment
What is the NPV?
The present payback
The IRR multiply for the initial investment
The two other answers are wrong
What is the leasing?
A financial renting
An employment contract
An agreement with a banking entity to get a loan
What is the meaning of the technical depreciation of a fixed asset?
The return of the money that people have lend to us to buy the fixed asset
The estimation of the depreciation of the fixed asset
The refund of the loan with its interests
What of these financial sources belongs to the long term liabilities?
Factoring
Issuing of bonds
The money to pay to the suppliers
In a Public Limited Company, what is the same as the share capital?
The number of shares multiplied by the nominal value of each share
The number of bonds multiplied by the nominal value of each bond
The number of shares multiplied by the market value of each share
The entity that manages the businessman's accounts receivable is called:
Leasing
Renting
Factoring
The firm's internal financing consists in the firm's financing:
Only with its shareholder's funds
With someone else's funds
With fund created by the own firm
We can define the cash conversion cycle as:
The average time to recover the money invested in the operating cycle
The average time to recover the money invested in the non-current assets
The average time to produce the goods
The decisions in the shareholder's meeting of a Public Limited Company, are made in the following way:
Each shareholder has a vote
Each shareholder has several votes according to the number of shares
Each shareholder has a vote for each bond
A firm with a positive working capital indicates:
That it can't pay its debts
That it's in a risky situation
That it mustn't have any financial problem at short term
The issuing of bonds consists in:
The sale of the equals parts of the capital of a corporation
The sale of the equal parts of a corporation's debt
The sale in the stock market of a corporation's shares
We understand as investment in human capital:
The investment in physical capital to save work force
The investment in physical capital that increases the employment of work force
The investment in training for the workers
The costs that depend on the firm's output are called:
Fixed costs
Variable costs
Indirect costs
The concept of business cost of the raw material is associated:
To the purchase of raw material
To the payment of the raw material
To the incorporation of the raw material to the production process
What is the break even point?
The production level that allow us to get the minimum cost
The production level that is obtained in a working day
The production level at which the revenues are equal to the total costs
Fixed costs are:
Those costs proportional to the output
Those that are equal to the variable costs at the break even point
Those than dont' depend on the variation of the output in a certain time period
It's frequent in the retailers to use the 3x2. This action can qualify as:
Promotion of sales
Advertisement
Public Relations
The stages of the cycle of life of a product are:
Introduction, maturity and decline
Introduction, growth, maturity and decline
Introduction, growth and maturity
The market segmentation consists in:
To join groups of customer with similar characteristics
To divide the market in several equal parts
To divide the market of potential customers, in groups with homogeneous characteristics
What of the following isn't a variable of marketing-mix?
Price
Distribution
Planning
A firm's share market is:
The part of the global demand of a market that a firm supply
The physical space that is assigned to a firm in a mall
A firm's total volume of purchases
The marketing-mix is made up for:
Product, price, promotion and distribution
Product, price, promotion and quality
Product, price, promotion and advertisement
The advertisement in the point of sale belongs to the:
Telemarketing
Direct marketing
Merchandising
In the cycle of life of a product, the initial phase is characterized by:
Huge investments in advertising and promotion of the products
Being the phase that provides the highest profits
The stabilization of the firms' sales
In the stage of maturity of a product:
The sales have a strong growth
The advertising looks for new consumers
The firm considers its retirement
In the stage of decline, in the cycle of life of a product:
The product isn't known yet
The sales decrease
The firm gets the highest profitability
The marketing-mix variables are:
Price, product, supply of materials and distribution
Distribution, price, communication and product
Sales forze, advertising, price and product
The stage of the cycle of life of a product in which the sales stabilize is called:
Growth
Decline
Maturity
A channel of distribution:
Consists on a group of middlemen
Consists on the civil services that regulate the trade
Consist on the different transport agencies that a manufacturer uses
Indicate which of the following statesment is true:
When there are few buyers and many sellers there is a monopoly
When there are many buyers and few sellers ther is an oligopsony
When there are few sellers and many buyers there is a oligopoly
The cash-flow is:
The difference between incomes and expenses
The difference between incomes and payments
The difference between the collections and the payments
How would affect to the amount of the working capital the payment of a debt to a supplier?
It doesn't affect, the working capital maintains equal
It increases
It decreases
The difference between the current assets and the current liabilities is:
The working capital
The current ratio
The acid-test ratio
Which of the following marketing variables has the aim of increasing the product long term sales:
Sales promotion
Advertising
Merchandising
Which of the following is a static method of investment selection?
The Internal Rate of Return
The Net Present Value
The payback
A corporation has 2,000 shares at 50€ nominal each one, prized at 110% Which is the market value of each one?
40€
50€
55€
When the Current Assets are higher than the Current Liabilities, it's said that:
The working capital is negative
The working capital is negligible
The working capital is positive
The payback is the time period:
Average to pay to the suppliers
Average to collect from the customers
That we need to recover the initial investment of a project
What is the NPV of an investment?
The relative profitability of a project of investment
The interest rate multiplied by the cash flows
The two other answers are wrong
The factoring consists in:
To lend a production factor to the development of the productive process
To sell the acounts receivable over customers to a specialized firm
None of the other answers is correct
The productivity of a factor in a time period is:
The ratio between the product's production cost and its price of sale
The ratio between a product's volume of production and the unities of factor used to produce it
The number of unities of a product manufactured by a firm during this period
The leasing can be defined as:
The transfer of a commercial debt
The being placed of money to buy a good with the promis of return it with its interests
A renting contract of assets with an option to buy it
The productivity is the ratio between:
The profit and the capital
The output and the quantity of factors used
The output and the focused aims
An oligopoly has:
Many suppliers and only one demander
Many suppliers and many demanders
Many demanders and few suppliers
The continuous training of the firm's staff:
Must be done allways inside the firm
Will allow the firm adapt to the changes and will win competivity
Only can be done in big firms
The shareholders' rights are:
To receive dividends
Right of first refusal to acquire the shares of the outgoing shareholders
All the others
What is the payback?
The relative profitability of a investment project
The interest rate that makes the NPV higher than zero
The time period that we need to recover an investment
Which of the following stages isn't a part of the cycle of life of a product?
Growth
Maturity
Deceased
Among the shareholders' rights of a Public Limited Company isn't:
Right to receive dividends
Right to be a company's worker
Right to information
The premium of issuing of shares is:
The difference between the net value and the conversion value
The difference between the refund price and the nominal valuel
The difference between the issuing price and the nominal value
Which of the following doesn't belong to a short distribution channel?
Wholesaler
Retailer
Manufacturer
The shareholders' investments to the capital are financial resources:
Internal and equity
Internal and liabilities
External and equity
The wholesaler are:
Middlemen that don't sell directly to the final consumer
Middlemen that buy the products in high quantities to sell them to the final consumer
Manufacturers of huge quantities of products
The customers' division in groups with homogeneous needs is called:
Market fragmentation
Market segmentation
Market research
The saving accounts of banks and saving banks are:
Passive operations
Active operations
Mediation operations and services
When there are many suppliers and few demanders:
There is a perfect competition market
There is a monopoly
There is an oligopsony
The sale to investors, as securities, of the proportional parts of a debt of a corporation, is called:
Issuing of bonds
Subscription of shares
Issuing of shares
Which of the following isn't a part of the Marketing Mix?
Product
Price
Process
In an alien distribution channel:
Its cost goes to the liabilitites
The middleman exists
The physical distribution isn't needed
The costs that are independet of the output are:
The fixed costs
The variable costs
The total costs
The amount of the profits that the firm has got and the firm hasn't shared among the shareholders are in:
Share capital
Reserves
Assets
The market research aim is
To commercialice the goods that the firms produce
To provide information about the market and its environment
To divide the market in homogeneous parts
The main firm's function for the society is:
To detect and to satisfy the consumer's needs
To make discounts to the consumer
To cover costs
Which sub-period isn't one of subperiods of the cash conversion cycle of a commercial firm:
Supply
Profit
Production
The transfer of invoices and other accounts receivalbe that a firm executes is called:
Factoring
Leasing
Confirming
The sales promotion consists in:
A group of techniques to collect information from the market through surveys
A group of techniques to get by means of a temporary and spacial campaign to stimule the demand and to increase the sales
A group of techniques to create certain relations and a good understanding inside and outside the firm
The maintenance internal financing is:
The net worth
The group of resources coming out the retention of profits
The funds that the firm assigns to depreciations each year
The break even point is the guide to the firm decides about the base of the minimum quantity that must produce:
To the firm begin to obtain profits
To begin the production
To obtain the maximum profit
A perfect competition market is characterized by:
A small number of firms have a high share market
There are few firms in the market
There are a lot of firms in the market
The workers training by the firm is:
production cost
technological capital investment
human capital investment
It's an equity:
share capital
loan
customers
Variable costs:
change according to the time
change according to the capital
change according to the output
It's an element of marketing mix
Assets
Price
Cost
The firms which sell directly their product to the customer use:
Short channel
Own channel
Internal channel
Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline are:
the market segmentation
the phases of the life of a product
the logistic of the firm
The cash conversion cycle has the following phases:
Planification, organization, management, and control
Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline
Provisioning, production, sale and collection
There is an oligopoly when:
There is an supplier and many demanders
There are many suppliers and one demander
The other answers are wrong
Which subperiod doesn'r belong to the cash conversion cycle of a commercial firm?
Storage
Payment
Production
They are a resource of financing:
Creditors
Debtors
Assets
When there are few firms, with a very hard competition and they sell similar products, we are in:
a monopolistic competition
an oligopoly
a monopoly
The aim of the promotion is:
to increase the sales
to get the product to be known in the market
The other two answers are correct
If a firm buys a vehicle with liquid assets:
the working capital decreases
the working capital increases
the working capital doesn't change
Leasing:
is a type of firm which manages the other firms' account receivable
is a group of small and medium size firms to have better financing
is a firm's option to finance fixed assets
The internal rate of return is:
the interest rate which makes maximum its Net Present Value
the interest rate which makes its Net Present Value equals to zero
the interest rate which makes its Net Present Value equals to the initial outlay
A firm can change its output at short term:
by changing the size of its plant
by changing the amount of variable factors
by selling part of its installations
A patent:
gives an exclusive right to exploit it to the person who has a new invent which has an industrial application
is a characteristic of a product
the other answers are wrong
The shares according to their ownership are:
Ordinary and privileged
bearing a person’s name and bearer shares
by means of a share certificate and by means of account notations
The reserves are a resource of financing:
internal
equity
the other two answers are correct
What is the nominal value of a share?
The number of the share
The name that appears in the share
The value of the share in a share certificate or in account notations
The sale to investors of proportional parts of a debt of a corporation is an:
issue of bonds
issue of shares
issue of stockholding
They are markets of imperfect competition:
Monopoly
Monopolistic competition
the other two answers are correct
The group of commercial activities which have the goal of incresing the sales of a product at short term are:
Advertising
Merchandising
Sales promotion
The issue of shares is a resource of financing:
External and equity
External and liabilities
Internal and equity
In the break- even point:
total costs are the same as the total revenue
the profit is maximum for the firm
the other answers are wrong
Net Present Value:
is a static capital budgeting method
takes into account the value of the money in the time
the other two answers are correct
Leasing is:
a type of firm which manages other firms' accounts receivable
a group of small and medium size enterprises which have the goal to obtain a better financing
is an option which the firms have to finance non current assets