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● The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones include. Answer: the
assembly quality incentives paid to drone PAT members, the company's prior-year 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?. Answer: 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.
Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: its credit
rating.
● Which the following are not factors in determining a company's credit rating?.
Answer: 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. Answer: 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?. Answer: 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?. Answer: 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?. Answer: 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. Answer: 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:. Answer: 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. Answer: Taiwan.
● The decisions that company co-manages make each year are organized around.
Answer: 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. Answer: hiring "temporary" PATs, the use of
overtime, and outsourcing assembly to contact assemblers.
● The factors that affect the productivity of PATs include. Answer: 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. Answer: at 8-10% annually during
the year 6-year 10 period and at 4-6% during the year 11-year 15 period.