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True/False Questions

1. Managerial Managerial accounting accounting places places less less emphasis emphasis on precisio precision n and more emphasis emphasis on on flexibility and relevance than financial accounting. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 1 Level: Medium 2. Managerial Managerial accounting accounting is not governed governed by generall generally y accepted accepted accounting accounting principle principless (GAAP). Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making, Measurement LO: 1 Level: Easy 3. Financial Financial accounting accounting and and managerial managerial accountin accounting g reports reports must be prepared prepared in in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 1 Level: Easy 4. When carrying carrying out their their directing directing and motivati motivating ng activities activities,, managers mobili mobilize ze the organization's human and other resources so that the organization's plans are carried out. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management, Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 5. When carrying carrying out out planning planning activities activities,, managers managers rely on feedback feedback to to ensure that that the  plan is actually carried out and is appropriately ap propriately modified as circumstances change. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium 6. When carrying carrying out their their directing directing and motivati motivating ng activities activities,, managers select select a course course of action and specify how the action will be implemented. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium

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7. Persons occupying staff positions provide support and assistance to other parts of the organization. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 8. Staff departments generally have direct authority over line departments in an organization. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium 9. Informal relationships and channels of communication often develop that do not appear on the organization chart. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management, Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 10. The controller's position in a retail company is considered a line position rather than a staff position. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium 11. The Chief Financial Officer of an organization should present facts and refrain from offering advice and personal opinion. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium 12. A strategy is a game plan that enables a company to attract customers by distinguishing itself from competitors. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 13. A strategy requires effective use of Six Sigma improvement techniques. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium

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14. A customer value proposition is essentially a reason for customers to choose a company's products over its competitors' products. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Marketing AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 15. Customer value propositions tend to fall into three broad categories--customer  intimacy, operational excellence, and product leadership. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Marketing AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 16. Companies that adopt a customer intimacy strategy are in essence saying to their target customers, “The reason you should choose us is because we understand and respond to your individual needs better than our competitors.” Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Marketing AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 17. Companies that choose an operational excellence strategy are in essence saying to their customers, “Choose us rather than our competitors because we strive for zero defects.” Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Marketing AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Medium 18. A value chain consists of the major business functions that add value to the company's  products and services. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 19. Efforts designed to increase the rate of output should generally be applied to the workstation that is the constraint. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Easy

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20. The lean thinking model is a five step management approach that organizes resources such as people and machines around the flow of business processes and that pulls units through theses processes in response to customer orders. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Easy 21. Supply chain management involves acquiring and bringing inside the company all of  the processes that bring value to customers. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Medium 22. An enterprise system integrates data across an organization into a single software system that enables all employees to have simultaneous access to a common set of  data. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Leveraging Technology AICPA FN: Leveraging Technology LO: 3 Level: Easy 23. Corporate governance is the legal framework that allows managers to control and direct lower-level workers on the job. Answer: False AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Medium 24. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was intended to protect the interests of those who invest in publicly traded companies by improving the reliability and accuracy of  corporate financial reports and disclosures. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Legal AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 3 Level: Easy 25. The Standards of Ethical Conduct promulgated by the Institute of Management Accountants specifically states, among other things, that management accountants have a responsibility to disclose fully all relevant information that could be reasonably  be expected to influence an intended user's understanding of the reports, comments and recommendations presented. Answer: True AACSB: Ethics AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 4 Level: Easy

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Multiple Choice Questions

26. Managerial accounting places considerable weight on: A) generally accepted accounting principles. B) the financial history of the entity. C) ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded. D) detailed segment reports about departments, products, and customers. Answer: D AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 1 Level: Easy 27. The plans of management are often expressed formally in: A) financial statements. B) performance reports. C) budgets. D) ledgers. Answer: C AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 1 Level: Easy 28. The phase of accounting concerned with providing information to managers for use in  planning and controlling operations and in decision making is called: A) throughput time. B) managerial accounting. C) financial accounting. D) controlling. Answer: B AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 1 Level: Easy 29. A staff position: A) relates directly to the carrying out of the basic objectives of the organization. B) is supportive in nature, providing service and assistance to other parts of the organization. C) is superior in authority to a line position. D) none of these. Answer: B AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy

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30. For a manufacturing company, what type of position (line or staff) is each of the following?

A) B) C) D)

Manager of a Data Processing Department Staff Staff Line Line

Manager of a Production Department Staff   Line Staff   Line

Answer: B AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 31. A _______________ position in an organization is directly related to the achievement of the organization's basic objectives. A) line B) management C) staff   D) None of the above. Answer: A AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 32. ______________ is an example of a line position. A) Controller for a merchandising company B) Chief financial officer of a merchandising company C) Store manager for Best Buy D) Human resources manager for a community college Answer: C AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 33. Which of the following is NOT one of the three major customer value propositions discussed in the text? A) customer intimacy B) discount pricing C) operational excellence D) product leadership Answer: B AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy

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34. Which of the following is NOT one of the five steps in the lean thinking model discussed in the text? A) Continuously pursue perfection in the business process. B) Identify value in specific products/services. C) Implement an enterprise system. D) Create a pull system that responds to customer orders. Answer: C AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 2 Level: Easy 35. One consequence of a change from a push to a properly implemented pull production system can be: A) an increase in work in process inventories. B) an extremely difficult cultural change due to enforced idleness when demand falls  below production capacity. C) an increased mismatch between what is produced and what is demanded by customers. D) an increase in raw materials inventories. Answer: B AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry, Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Hard 36. All of the following are characteristics of a pull production system EXCEPT: A) Inventories are reduced to a minimum by purchasing raw materials and producing units only as needed to meet consumer demand. B) Raw materials are released to production far in advance of being needed to ensure no interruptions in work flows due to shortages of raw materials. C) Products are completed just in time to be shipped to customers. D) Manufactured parts are completed just in time to be assembled into products. Answer: B AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Medium 37. The five step framework used to guide Six Sigma improvement efforts includes all of  the following EXCEPT: A) Analyze. B) Control. C) Digitize. D) Measure. Answer: C AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Resource Management AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 3 Level: Medium

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38. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 contains all of the following provisions EXCEPT: A) The audit committee of the board of directors of a company must hire, compensate, and terminate the public accounting firm that audits the company's financial reports. B) Financial statements must be audited once every three years by the Government Accounting Office. C) Both the CEO and CFO must certify in writing that their company's financial statements and accompanying disclosures fairly represent the results of operations. D) A company's annual report must contain an internal control report. Answer: B AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Legal AICPA FN: Measurement LO: 3 Level: Medium 39. The Institute of Management Accountants' Standards of Ethical Conduct contains a  policy regarding confidentiality that requires that management accountants: A) refrain from disclosing confidential information acquired in the course of their  work except when authorized by management. B) refrain from disclosing confidential information acquired in the course of their  work in all situations. C) refrain from disclosing confidential information acquired in the course of their  work except when authorized by management, unless legally obligated to do so. D) refrain from disclosing confidential information acquired in the course of their  work in all cases since the law requires them to do so. Answer: C AACSB: Ethics AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 4 Level: Hard 40. Which of the following is NOT one of the Institute of Management Accountants' five Standards of Ethical Conduct? A) Competence B) Confidentiality C) Independence D) Integrity Answer: C AACSB: Ethics AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Decision Making LO: 4 Level: Medium

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