Which of the Following Most Accurately Describes Your Company's Production Operations

The factors that affect a company's P/Q rating for UAV drones include assembly quality incentives the company's prior-year brand reputation warranty claim rate on the company's drone Components of the compensation package for members of production assembly teams? fringe benefit package, assembly quality incentives year-end bonus for perfect attendance annual base wage The factors that affect the productivity of both camera PATs and drone PATS size of assembly quality incentives paid to camera/drone PATS how favorably the overall size of the company's total compensation package per camera/drone PAT member compares against the camera/drone all-company averages 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? size of the company's year-end cash balance average of its ROE for the past three years how many times the company has been put on credit watch. Geographic regions in which the company is selling its cameras? Europe-Africa Latin America Asia-Pacific North America. Currencies involved for the shipment in 4 geographic regions? U.S. dollars, Taiwan dollars, Singapore dollars, euros, and Brazilian real. Which one of the following situations/circumstances is it most reasonable for a company to consider shifting away from pursuit of a strategy to strongly differentiate its multi-featured cameras from the multi-featured camera brands of rival companies and sell them at a premium price? When the market for high-end multi-featured cameras is crowded with companies using more or less copycat differentiation strategies to try to out-compete one another, thus making it difficult for any of these companies to earn attractively high profits. If a company earns net income of $40 million in Year 8, has 10 million shares of stock, pays a dividend of $1,50 per share, and has annual interest costs of $15 million, then he company's EPS for Year 8 would be $4.00 and its retaining earnings for Year 8 would be $25 million (net income of $40 million less dividend payments of $15 million). the annual compensation cost of a single PAT member and a fully-staffed PAT would be $23,740 and $94,960. Which one of the following is an attractive and effective way to reduce the production costs of multi-featured cameras and help put the company in better position to achieve a low-cost competitive advantage over rival companies Striving to keep the labor costs per camera assembled in-house to amounts that are well below the Industry-average benchmark If a company is being out-competed by various rival companies in the Europe-Africa market for multi-featured cameras and consequently has an unappealing low sales volume and market share in Europe-Africa explore correcting most or all of the company's competitive weaknesses managers should initiate actions that they believe will result in the company having at least two important competitive strengths vis-a-vis its Europe-Africa rivals in the upcoming decision round. Your company's score is based on: EPS, ROE, Share Price. Credit Score. Image Score. Interest rates range between credit rating scores of. A+ 5% to C-11% These rates will fluctuate with time. PQ Rating Factors: Core Components Brand Specific Components RnD Special Utility Features RnD. Calculated features of Worker productivity: Fringe Benefits Quarterly Bonus for Attendance Increase to Base Wage Incentives to to reduce Warranties Productivity Training. 20-30 20. Which of the following are NOT measures on which a company performance is judget scored -P/Q rating, dividend payments, revenues, market share, and total number of cameras sold, and balance sheet strength. 21. Which of the following most accurately describes your company's production/assembly operations? . the company uses workstations staffed by 4-person teams to assemble cameras. current productivity of the assembly teams was 2,500 cameras per quarter or 10,000 per year. Some cameras are outsourced from contract assemblers that are paid a $25 fee for each camera assembled. 22. Which of the following statements accurately describes the distribution of the company's unit sales across the four geographic regions in which it sells cameras? -The company sells 40% of its cameras its biggest region and sells only 10% of its cameras in its smallest region 23. Which one of the following is NOT a way to improve the P/Q rating of a company's brand of multi- featured cameras? - Increasing the number of models in the company's line of multi-featured cameras. 24. Assume a company's Income Statement for a given quarter is as follows: Sales Revenues (50,000), Production Costs (26,500), Delivery Costs (1,600), Marketing Costs (8,500), Administrative Expenses