Which of the following is an advantage of using single sourcing?
A) Suppliers are more likely to remain cost-competitive.
B) Buyers are less reliant on one firm to deliver the needed goods without interruption.
C) The buyer and seller agree to be each other's customers.
D) Consistency of quality of materials input into the product process is greater.
E) Buyers have other suppliers to fall back on if one supplier fails.
D
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Lincoln Company engaged in this transaction: Sold land it was holding for speculation. Indicate which section, if any, the above transaction would appear in, or relate to, on a statement of cash flows
A) Financing activities section. B) Schedule of noncash investing and financing transactions. C) Operating activities section. D) Investing activities section.
Use the S-curve where the solid line is actual cost and the dashed line is budgeted cost to choose the BEST statement
A) The project is further ahead of budget from weeks 36 through 40 than from weeks 8 through 12. B) The project never experiences negative variance. C) The project is further behind budget from weeks 0 through 16 than from 24 through 40. D) The project is in a constant state of positive variance.
Which of the following statements about project standing alone risk is true?
A) It ignores the fact that much of the risk of a project will be diversified away as the project is combined with the firm's other projects. B) It provides the best measure of project risk for a large, widely-held company. C) It takes into consideration the effects of diversification of the firm's shareholders. D) It ignores the cash flows that are associated with a project that occur beyond the payback period.