B is a horticultural retailer with limited funds available to acquire new retail property.
B's Finance Manager has analysed two potential property investments. Investing in property P shows an IRR of 21% while the IRR on property Q is 17%.
The Finance Manager has also advised that the NPV for property P is $750K, while the NPV of property Q is $850K.
The Board needs to choose between the two properties as it has insufficient funds for both. Based purely on the Finance Manager's analysis, which of the following is true?
The Dean of Information Technology at Capital City University wishes to develop a degree in 'ethical hacking" Students will graduate from this course with the skills needed to develop malware, so that they have the ability to reverse engineer malicious software The Dean believes that there will be strong demand for such graduates from employers in IT security and related fields.
Which TWO of the following statements are correct?
H is a departmental manager in a private college. The main measure of performance used to assess the Department Manager's effectiveness is meeting the college budgets. The budget for each year is based on the actual expenditure of the previous year adjusted for specific one-off items.
Which of the following would arise from using the meeting of this type of budget as a performance measurement?
W plc is a large international supermarket chain. It has many thousands of suppliers and many thousands of others competing for "shelf space" in its supermarkets.
Which of the following would be appropriate provisions for W plc to include in its Ethical Code in relation to its suppliers?
UIO sells mobile phones through a cham of 100 shops spread across the country Shop managers have considerable discretion over pncmg and the incentives offered to sales staff Shop managers are evaluated on the monthly contribution from completed sales. Those who exceed targets by more than 10% for three successive months are promoted Those who fail to achieve monthly targets in two successive months lose their jobs
Which of the following statements are true of the performance management of UIO's shop managers?
Select ALL that apply.
The board of OKN is considering an investment opportunity that will require the company to borrow a large amount in month 10 of the current financial year and to invest it immediately in property, plant and equipment. This investment has a positive net present value that justifies the risk, but the directors are reluctant to invest in the project.
Why might the directors be reluctant?
DFG is the largest bridge-building company in its home country, H. DFG works exclusively for the government of country H and the government awards DFG 80% of the contracts to build new bridges.
DFG's directors are considering using the big data approach to identify opportunities to increase sales revenues and profit.
Which of the following statements are true?
TT is a jewellery manufacturer in country A It makes jewellery from precious metals and stones and sells it to shops in country A and also overseas It is the 3rd largest company in country A with a huge turnover
TT has found it very difficult to prevent staff committing fraud and last year the Board was sure that the year end inventory was lower than it should have been Gross profit was also slightly lower than expected
Which TWO of the following internal controls would be most effective in helping to reduce staff fraud within TT?
A company has a sound system of internal controls that have been reviewed by the internal audit department.
Which TWO of the following correctly identify reasons why the company's control system might fail to prevent or detect an irregularity?
Physical access controls can greatly enhance the security of company assets.
Select THREE methods by which physical access security can be significantly enhanced.
