Question 71
Which TWO of the following actions taken during the budgetary planning process will result in the creation of budgetary slack?
Question 72
A company has a cost of capital of 12% and a maximum of $20 million to invest. It has identified three possible investment projects, none of which is divisible, as follows.
Which project(s) should the company invest in?
Question 73
A company has three divisions, each of which is an investment centre. The divisional managers' performance is assessed using return on investment (ROI). A higher ROI will result in a higher bonus for the divisional manager.
The company's cost of capital is 15%.
For the forthcoming year each divisional manager has one investment opportunity available as follows:
The manager(s) of which division(s) will proceed with their respective investment opportunity?
Question 74
ZZZ is a divisionalised company that uses the balanced scorecard approach to monitor divisional performance. Each measure on the scorecard is classified as green (if they are better than expected), amber (if expectations have been met) or red (if they are poorer than expected).
The Southern Division's scorecard shows that 90% of the measures are amber, 3% are green and 7% are red.
All of the red classifications are listed under the Learning and Growth perspective and have arisen largely because the division has lost a lot of staff to a major competitor who offered a better rate of pay.
Which THREE of the following statements are correct?