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The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones include - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔its credit rating.
Which the following are not factors in determining a company's credit rating? - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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? -
✔✔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? -
✔✔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? - ✔✔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 -
✔✔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: - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Taiwan.
The decisions that company co-manages make each year are organized around - ✔✔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 - ✔✔hiring "temporary" PATs, the use of overtime, and outsourcing assembly to contact
assemblers.
The factors that affect the productivity of PATs include - ✔✔the size of incentive bonuses to workers,
base pay increases, perfect attendance bonuses, the size of the fringe benefits package, how favorably