Glo-bus Study Guide
The factors that affect the P/Q rating of a company's action cameras include
Cumulative spending for product R&D, the amount the company spends on training its camera-related PATs and improving the quality of its camera-related assembly methods, the camera housing, and editing/sharing capabilities
Which of the following is not accurate as concerns the online retailers of unmanned aerial view drones and/or the buyers of unmanned aerial view drones?
A big percentage of shoppers for UAV drones used for commercial purposes do little internet research and are unfamiliar with the P/Q ratings of rival brands, and the retail prices and information posted at company websites and the websites of other online retailers of drones
Which of the following does not accurately describe your company's camera/drone business and operations?
All of the unmanned aerial view (UAV) drones assembled at the Taiwan plant are sold directly to online retailers of commercial drones in each geographic region; drone buyers can visit the company's website to obtain information about its drone models and to view a list of online retailers who stock the company's drone models...
Which of the following is not accurate as concerns the online retailers of unmanned aerial view drones and/or the buyers of unmanned aerial view drones?
Because your company sells its UAV drone models at the company's own website in direct competition with other online retailers of UAV drones, these online retailers are inclined to stock and display your company's brand of drones only if they can purchase your company's brand of drones at a discount of at least 35 percent below the online retail price your company charges
Which of the following statements does not accurately describe how your company's performance is scored on the Investor Expectations Standard?
Exactly meeting each of the 5 performance targets results in the maximum Investor Expectations Standard Score of 120
Which of the following statements about your company's assembly operations for cameras and drones is TRUE?
If the company decides shift from manual assembly to robotics-assisted assembly for cameras and/or drones, ALL existing workstations in a camera or drone assembly facility must be upgraded to include the use of a robot and all workstations added thereafter in that facility must be robot-equipped.
The factors that affect the P/Q rating of a company's action cameras include
Image sensor size, the size of the LCD display screen, the image quality of the videos and still pictures, and the number of photos modes for videos and still pictures
Which of the following statements about crafting a strategy to be competitively successful in the markets for action cameras and drones IS true?
In GLO-BUS, there are multiple strategic approaches and sets of competitive efforts/action that if properly designed and well-executed, are capable of producing competitive success in the global market for cameras/drones, provided they are not overpowered or thwarted by even more potent strategic approaches and competitive actions/efforts that are well-executed by rival companies.
Which of the following is not one of the benefits of current-year and cumulative expenditures for camera/drone product R&D?
Increasing the total compensation of PATs that assemble camera/drone models
Which of the following is not the one of the measures on which a company's performance is judged/scored?
Its latest P/Q ratings for both action cameras and UAV drones
Which of the following statements about the worldwide market for UVA drones is FALSE?
Just where within the 2% forecasted ranges any region's actual growth rate turns out to be in any given year never varies between regions; in one region where the actual growth rate in a particular year is near the high end of the forecast range, another region in the same year will also be near the high end of the forecast range, and in still another region in the same year will be near the high end of the forecasted range
The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones include
rotor performance and flight controller features/capabilities, body frame construction, the caliber of the obstacle sensors, and the number of extra performance features.
Which of the following are the four geographic regions in which the company's currently seeking its action-capture cameras and UAV drones?
North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe-Africa
Which of the following does not accurately describe your company's camera/drone business and operation?
One the company's action-capture are assembled and tested, the company ships them across the world to multi-store chains and online retailers that sell electronics products and to a wide variety of local retail shops stocking and merchandising (or something renting) action-capture cameras to their customers
The benefits of current and cumulative expenditures for camera/drone product R&D do not include which of the following?
Reducing the warranty period and repair cost (these two benfits show up at the beginning of the current year)
Which of the following currencies are involved in affecting the revenues your company receives on shipments of action-cameras and UAV drone to buyers in the four geographic regions where it does business?
Singapore dollars, euros, U.S dollars, the Brazilian real, and Taiwan dollars
Which of the following statements about crafting a strategy to be competitively successful in the markets for cameras and drones is not true?
So as long as a company had higher earrings per share than any other rival in the most recent year, there is no compelling need for managers to make change or adjustments in the company's strategy and competitive action/efforts simply to respond to the sifting strategies and competitive efforts of rival co ponies that are actively to improve their overall performance
Which of the following statements about crafting a strategy to be competitively successful in the markets for action cameras and drones is not true?
So long as a company has higher earnings per share than any other rival in the most recent year, there is no compelling need for its mangers to make changes or adjustment in the company's strategy and competitive actions/efforts simply to respond to the shifting strategies and competitive efforts of rival companies that reactively striving to improve their overall performance
The company has its camera and drone assembly facilities in
Taiwan
Which of the following statements does not accurately describe how your company's performance is scored on the Best-in-Industry Standard?
The Best-in-Industry scoring standard is based on how your company's performance compares (1) to the industry is best performer on market share, on return on sales (ROS), on stock price appreciation, and on P/Q rating and (2) to the ultimate credit rating of A+
Which of the following currencies are not involved in affecting the revenues your company receives on shipments of the action-cameras and UAV drones to buyers in the four geographic regions where it competes?
The Mexican peso and Swiss francs
Which of the following does not have a bearing in deterring a company's action camera sales and market share in a particular geographic region?
The P/Q ratings of the various brands of UAV drones offered for sale in the region
Which the following is not accurate as concerns that retailers and buyers of action-capture cameras?
The buyers of action cameras in Latin America and Europe-Africa region are less sensitive to cross-brand price differences than are camera buyers in North America and Asia-Pacific.
Which of the following IS one of the factors that determine a company's credit rating?
The company's debt-to-equity ratio
Which of the following are components f the compensation package for members of camera/drone PATs?
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
Which of the following are components of the package for production assembly terms?
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
Which one of the following is not a factor in determining a company's action camera sales and market share in a particular geographic region?
The extent to which a company's online price for its action cameras at its website in each geographic region is above/below the all-company regional average online price
Which of the following IS one of the factors that determine a company's credit rating?
The interest coverage ratio (defined as annual operating profit divided by annual interest expense)
Which of the following statements about your company's assembly operations for cameras and drones is TRUE?
The maximum number of camera drones that can be assembled at overtime is 20% of the annual PAT productivity (the number of units a camera/drone PAT assembles each year)
The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones do NOT include
a company's cumulative spending on product advertising
World unit sales of wearable, miniature action-capture cameras are reliably projected to grow
at 6-8% annually during the Year 6-10 period and at 4-6% annually during the Year 11-15 period
The factors that affect the P/Q rating of a company's action camera include
cumulative spending for product R&D, the amount the company spends on training its camera-related PATs and improving the quality of its camera-related assembly methods, then camera housing, and editing/sharing capabilities
A camera-maker's price competitiveness in a particular geographic region is determined by
how far its average wholesale price in the region is above or below the regional average wholesale price
Whether a maker of action cameras is charging an average wholesale price for its models that makes it price competitive with the prices being charged by rival companies in the region is determined by
how much its average wholesale price to camera retailers in the region is above or below the regional average wholesale price
The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones do not include
the caliber of the o stable sonar, the number of extra performance features, and the amount a company spends on training its drone pilots and I proving its drone-related assembly methods
The Global Community Bank, under terms of its long-term banking agreement with the company, has agreed to lend the company additional monies should you elect to use debt to help finance growth and the financial needs; the interest rate the GCB will charge on such loans is determined is ted to the payback period (1 year,5 years, 10 years) and to
the company's credit rating and the going rates of interest in world financial markets
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 pf a 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