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The installation of production improvement option D which boosts worker
productivity by 50% by using robots to assist in producing footwear -
Correct Answer-is a more economically attractive means for reducing
labor costs per pair produced production facility in North America than for
a production facility in the Asia Pacific
Which one of the following actions is least likely to increase labor
productivity by an amount that is large enough to result in lower labor
costs per pair produced at a particular plant? - Correct Answer-Increasing
worker base pay by the allowed maximum of 15% each and every year
until the company's base pay compensation per employee exceeds the
total compensation per employee ($/year) of all other companies in the
industry
Which one of the following options is usually an appealing way to try to
increase a company's ROE? - Correct Answer-Repurchasing share4s of
common stock
Which one of the following has little bearing on whether profitable
opportunity exists to install additional new or refurbished production
equipment in the upcoming decision round? - Correct Answer-How many
companies in the industry have expanded their production capacity since
Year 10
Which one of the following is a way to improve the S/Q rating of branded
pairs produced at a particular production facility? - Correct Answer-
Increasing per model expenditures for enhanced styling/features
If a company's actual results for revenues , net profits, EPS, and ROE turn
out to be worse than projected, then it is usually because - Correct
Answer-the competitive efforts exerted by rival companies to capture
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, sales and market share for themselves in one or more geographic regions
proved stronger than company managers anticipated, given the updates of
the regional average competitive efforts that company managers made in
the
A company cannot effectively differentiate its branded footwear from the
brands of rivals and thereby attract more buyers by - Correct Answer-
refraining from bidding on contracts to supply private label footwear to
chain retailers
The most competitively effective and very likely most profitable long-term
approach to reducing or eliminating the impact of paying tariffs on pairs
imported to a company's distribution warehouse in Europe-Africa is to -
Correct Answer-build and equip a production facility in Europe-Africa and
then expand it as may be needed to supply all (or at least most) of the
pairs the company intends to try to sell in the Europe-Africa region
Production improvement option B (with capital costs of $1.6 million per
million pairs of production capacity and annual depreciation costs of 10%)
that reduces production run setup costs by 50% each year makes the most
economic sense in which one of the following circumstances? - Correct
Answer-Company managers expect to produce 350 models/styles and 6
million pairs of branded footwear on an ongoing basis at a 6-
million pair capacity facility in the Asia-Pacific-
annual production run setup costs for 350 models
of branded footwear are $9 million
Which one of the following has a direct negative
impact on a company's image rating - Correct
Answer-decreases in the company's global average
S/Q rating for branded footwear
Which of the following actions is not one of the
optional initiatives that a company can include in
its social responsibility strategy to boost its image
rating over the long term? - Correct Answer-using
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