12.capital Budgeting Decisions - Answers PDF

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Balanced scorecards contain a number of factors that are important to the success of a business.

These factors are often divided into four categories: financial, customer, learning and growth, and
internal operations.

Determine the proper classification for each of the following factors:

Manufacturing cycle efficiency


b. Internal Operations

When income taxes are considered in capital budgeting, the cash flows related to a company's
advertising expense would be correctly figured by taking the cash paid for advertising and subtracting
the result of multiplying [advertising expense x (1 - tax rate)].

True

Balanced scorecards contain a number of factors that are important to the success of a business.

These factors are often divided into four categories: financial, customer, learning and growth, and
internal operations.

Determine the proper classification for each of the following factors:

Levels of inventories held

c. Internal Operation

Balanced scorecards contain a number of factors that are important to the success of a business.

These factors are often divided into four categories: financial, customer, learning and growth, and
internal operations.

Determine the proper classification for each of the following factors:

Earnings per share

a. Financial

A company's hurdle rate is generally influenced by whether management uses the net-present-value
method or the internal-rate-of-return method.

True

Balanced scorecards contain a number of factors that are important to the success of a business.

These factors are often divided into four categories: financial, customer, learning and growth, and
internal operations.

Determine the proper classification for each of the following factors:

Market Share

d. Customer
A balanced scorecard looks at an organization from four different perspectives.

True

Balanced scorecards contain a number of factors that are important to the success of a business.

These factors are often divided into four categories: financial, customer, learning and growth, and
internal operations.

Determine the proper classification for each of the following factors:

Number of vendors used

c. Internal Operation

Balanced scorecards contain a number of factors that are important to the success of a business.

These factors are often divided into four categories: financial, customer, learning and growth, and
internal operations.

Determine the proper classification for each of the following factors:

Number of patents held

a. Learning and Growth

The present value of a given future cash flow will increase as the discount rate decreases.

False

If improvement in a performance measure on a balanced scorecard should lead to improvement in


another performance measure, but does not, then employees must work harder.

False

An increasingly popular approach that integrates financial and customer performance measures with
measures in the areas of internal operations and learning and growth is known as:

a. the balanced scorecard.

The typical balanced scorecard is best described as containing both financial and nonfinancial
performance measures.

True

Capital budgeting tends to focus primarily on:

d. programs and projects.

When using a balanced scorecard, a company's market share is typically classified as an element of the
firm's:

c. customer performance measures.


An increase in the expected salvage value at the end of a capital budgeting project will have no effect on
the internal rate of return for that project.

False

Which of the following would not involve a capital-budgeting analysis?

b. The adoption of a new cost driver for overhead application.

When cash flows are uneven and vary from year to year, the internal rate of return method is easier to
use than the net present value method.

False

Capital-budgeting decisions primarily involve:

c. long-term decisions.

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