A. b. c. d. e. 1. true or false: diminishing returns will occur when investing in the same tqm initiative round after round. a. true b. false 2. true or false: according to the s-shaped curve, diminishing returns for a single year budget become noticeable at $2,000,000. a. true b. false 3. true or false: if a company with low automation wanted to invest in a single area that exclusively lowers labor costs, they would select qit (quality initiative training). a. true b. false 4. true or false: the exact outcome of tqm efforts appear on the tqm report, and as bar charts on the tqm spreadsheet. these results are for the previous round only, assuming no additional investment is made. a. true b. false 5. the tqm report can be accessed from the a. capstone(r) courier b. industry conditions report c. annual reports

Which of the following differentiates cost accounting and financial accounting? a. the primary users of cost accounting are the investors, whereas the primary users of financial accounting are the managers. b. cost accounting measures only the financial information related to the costs of acquiring fixed assets in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures financial and nonfinancial information of a company's business transactions. c. cost accounting measures information related to the costs of acquiring or using resources in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures a financial position of a company to investors, banks, and external parties. d. cost accounting deals with product design, production, and marketing strategies, whereas financial accounting deals mainly with pricing of the products.

Security a has a higher standard deviation of returns than security b. we would expect that: (i) security a would have a risk premium equal to security b. (ii) the likely range of returns for security a in any given year would be higher than the likely range of returns for security b. (iii) the sharpe ratio of a will be higher than the sharpe ratio of b. (a) i only (b) i and ii only (c) ii and iii only (d) i, ii and iii

Location test: question 1 of 54)water is a solvent because itoa. is made of moleculesob. dissolves many substancesc. is a saltd. has a large buffering capacity