The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones include
the assembly quality incentives paid to drone PAT members, the company's prior-year
... [Show More] brand reputation, and the prior year worldwide average warranty claim rate on the company's drones.
Which of the following ARE components of the compensation package for members of production assembly teams?
The dollar-cost of a PAT member's fringe benefit package, assembly quality incentives ($ per unit assembled divided equally among PAT members), year-end bonus for perfect attendance, and annual base wage
The factors that affect the productivity of both camera PATs and drone PATs include
the size of assembly quality incentives paid to camera/drone PATs, how favorably the overall size of the company's total compensation package (not including overtime pay) per camera/drone PAT member compares against the camera/drone all-company averages, and changes in the number of camera/drone models that have to be assembled.
The company's present assembly plant has sufficient space for
up to 150 workstations, without expanding the size of the plant.
A camera-maker's price competitiveness in a particular geographic region is determined by
whether its price is above or below the average price of all companies competing in that geographic region.
The interest rate a company pays on loans outstanding depends on
its credit rating.
Which the following are not factors in determining a company's credit rating?
The size of the company's year-end cash balance, the average of its ROE for the past three years, and how many times the company has been put on credit watch.
Consumer purchases of digital cameras are seasonal with
about 20% of consumer demand coming in quarter 1, 20% in quarter 2, 20% in quarter 3 and 40% in quarter 4.
Which of the following are the four geographic regions in which the company is selling its cameras?
Europe-Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and North America.
Which of the following currencies are involved in affecting the revenues your company receives on camera shipments to retailers in the four geographic regions of the world where it markets cameras?
U.S. dollars, Taiwan dollars, Singapore dollars, euros, and Brazilian real.
Which of the following do not have a bearing in determining a company's unit sales and market share of entry-level or multi-featured cameras in a particular geographic region?
The size of the incentive bonus paid to PATs, the percentage of cameras that were outsourced, and warranty claims costs.
The company's shipments of digital cameras to retailers in various foreign countries are subject to
import duties imposed by the countries to which the cameras are shipped and the effects of fluctuating exchange rates.
The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating include:
the caliber of core components; company's cumulative spending for new product R&D, engineering and design; the number of models; camera body ergonomics/durability; and the number of special utility features.
The company maintains a production facility in
Taiwan.
The decisions that company co-manages make each year are organized around
marketing, product design, assembly/shipping, compensation and labor force, and finance.
The options that a company has for assembling enough cameras to meet peak-quarter order form retailers include
hiring "temporary" PATs, the use of overtime, and outsourcing assembly to contact assemblers.
The factors that affect the productivity of PATs include
the size of incentive bonuses to workers, base pay increases, perfect attendance bonuses, the size of the fringe benefits package, how favorably the overall size of a company's compensation package compares with the industry-average compensation package, expenditures for PAT training and productivity improvement, and changes in the number of models.
The market for digital cameras is projected to grow
at 8-10% annually during the year 6-year 10 period and at 4-6% during the year 11-year 15 period.
Which of the following is not an accurate description of the market for digital cameras?
Retailers get their cameras from camera-makers on a just-in-time delivery basis.
Which of the following are not measures on which a company's performance is judged/scored?
P/Q rating, dividend payments, revenues, market share, and total number of cameras sold, and balance sheet strength. [Show Less]