Chapt 1 Managerial Accounting

Managerial accounting is concerned with:

providing information for use within the organization.

The focal point of a company's strategy should be:

its target customers.

Which of the following statements is not correct? A) A plan is always expressed in formal quantitative terms. B) Planning involves establishing goals and specifying how to achieve them. C) Controlling involves gathering feedback to ensure that the plan is being properly executed or modified as circumstances change. D) Decision making involves selecting a course of action from competing alternatives.

A) A plan is always expressed in formal quantitative terms.

Which of the following statements is not correct? A) Corporate social responsibility is a process used by a company to identify risks relating to strategy, plan, and decision and develop responses to them that enable it to be reasonably assured of meeting its goals. B) Controls cannot completely eliminate risks. C) Risk management is a critically important aspect of decision making. D) All of the above are correct statements.

A) Corporate social responsibility is a process used by a company to identify risks relating to strategy, plan, and decision and develop responses to them that enable it to be reasonably assured of meeting its goals.

Which of the following statements is correct? A) A business process consists of the major business functions that add value to a company's products and services. B) Lean production bloats inventories and results in more defects. C) A strategy is a game plan that enables companies to attract customers by distinguishing itself from competitors. D) All of the above statements are correct.

C) A strategy is a game plan that enables companies to attract customers by distinguishing itself from competitors.

Which of the following statements about the value chain is not correct? A) Managers need to understand the value chain to be effective in terms of planning, control and decision making. B) The value chain consists of the major business functions that add value to a company's product and services. C) From a control and decision-making standpoint, managers need to focus on functional performance rather than process excellence. D) The term value chain is often used to describe how an organization's functional departments interact with one another to form business processes.

C) From a control and decision-making standpoint, managers need to focus on functional performance rather than process excellence.

Which of the following statements about lean production is not correct? A) Lean production is a management approach that organizes resources around the flow of business processes. B) Lean production is often called just-in-time production (or JIT). C) Lean thinking organizes work departmentally and encourages departments to maximize their output. D) When a lean production process management method is in use, units are only produced in response to customer orders.

C) Lean thinking organizes work departmentally and encourages departments to maximize their output.

The IMA's Statement of Ethical Professional Practice includes which of the following broad categories? A) Competence B) Confidentiality C) Credibility D) All of the above

D) All of the above

Which of the following statements about corporate social responsibility is not correct? A) Corporate social responsibility is a concept whereby organizations consider the needs of all stakeholders when making decisions. B) Corporate social responsibility extends beyond legal compliance. C) Corporate social responsibility includes voluntary actions that satisfy stakeholder expectations. D) All of the above statements are correct.

D) All of the above statements are correct.

A performance report: A) is part of the control process. B) compares budgeted data to actual data in an effort to identify excellent performance. C) is prepared to identify unsatisfactory performance. D) is all of the above.

D) is all of the above