BSG Comprehensive Exam Questions and Answers
1. The installation of production improvement option D which
boosts worker productivity by 50% by using robots to assist
in producing footwear: 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
2. Which one of the following actions is least likely to increase
labor produc- tivity by an amount that is large enough to
result in lower labor costs per pair produced at a particular
plant?: 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
3. Which one of the following options is usually an appealing
way to try to increase a company's ROE?: Repurchasing
share4s of common stock
4. Which one of the following has little bearing on whether
profitable oppor- tunity exists to install additional new or
refurbished production equipment in the upcoming decision
round?: How many companies in the industry have expanded
their production capacity since Year 10
, 5. Which one of the following is a way to improve the S/Q
rating of branded pairs produced at a particular production
facility?: Increasing per model ex- penditures for enhanced
styling/features
6. 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: the competitive ef- forts exerted by rival
companies to capture 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
7. A company cannot effectively differentiate its branded
footwear from the brands of rivals and thereby attract more
buyers by: refraining from bidding on contracts to supply private
label footwear to chain retailers
8. 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: 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
1. The installation of production improvement option D which
boosts worker productivity by 50% by using robots to assist
in producing footwear: 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
2. Which one of the following actions is least likely to increase
labor produc- tivity by an amount that is large enough to
result in lower labor costs per pair produced at a particular
plant?: 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
3. Which one of the following options is usually an appealing
way to try to increase a company's ROE?: Repurchasing
share4s of common stock
4. Which one of the following has little bearing on whether
profitable oppor- tunity exists to install additional new or
refurbished production equipment in the upcoming decision
round?: How many companies in the industry have expanded
their production capacity since Year 10
, 5. Which one of the following is a way to improve the S/Q
rating of branded pairs produced at a particular production
facility?: Increasing per model ex- penditures for enhanced
styling/features
6. 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: the competitive ef- forts exerted by rival
companies to capture 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
7. A company cannot effectively differentiate its branded
footwear from the brands of rivals and thereby attract more
buyers by: refraining from bidding on contracts to supply private
label footwear to chain retailers
8. 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: 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
