Commerce Accountancy

Business and Project Management

1,146 Questions

Business and project management focus on organizational resources, strategic planning, and time management techniques used to achieve corporate objectives. It includes theories of administration and continuous improvement processes. Review these commerce and management questions to prepare for business administration sections in competitive exams.

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Business and Project Management Questions

Multiple choice
  1. accounting concepts

  2. government mandates

  3. governance standards

  4. procedures and policies

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Procedures, rules and policies, once established, are difficult to change. Planning, on the other hand, may call for a change in the existing procedures and policies.

Multiple choice
  1. Motivation

  2. Directing

  3. Discipline

  4. Coordination

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Directing is an important function of management which involves communicating with and providing leadership to the subordinates and motivating them to contribute their best for the achievement of organisational objectives.

Multiple choice
  1. Total Quality Management (TQM)

  2. Customer Management

  3. Risk Management

  4. Financial Management

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach that organisations use to improve their internal processes and increase customer satisfaction. When properly implemented, it can lead to decreased costs related to corrective or preventative maintenance, better overall performance, and an increased number of satisfied and loyal customers.

Multiple choice
  1. finance function

  2. marketing function

  3. secretarial function

  4. administration function

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In business, secretarial division is reponsible for performing secretarial functions, i.e complying procedural formalities relating to corporate restructuring. For example, conducting Board Meetings, drafting agendas, etc.

Multiple choice
  1. operational planning

  2. strategic planning

  3. middle level planning

  4. performance planning

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Strategic plan draws the clear layout of specific business’s venture, vision, missions, objectives, competencies, managerial abilities, technical proficiency, and sources of fund. Thus, vision and mission statements of an organisation are a result of strategic planning.

Multiple choice
  1. environment scanning

  2. market analysis

  3. SWOT analysis

  4. PESTLE analysis

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Environment scanning is careful monitoring of an organisation’s internal and external environments for detecting early signs of opportunities and threats that may influence its current and future plans.

Multiple choice
  1. This firm now has clearly defined administrative goals.

  2. The general demand for textiles has increased dramatically during the past three years.

  3. Before Amit Aggarwal became CEO, there was no competent leadership in the firm.

  4. The new organizational is clearly responsible for the increase in productivity.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The writer says that the improvements over the past two years are the result of competent leadership and clearly defined administrative goals, and since Amit Aggarwal is the new CEO, he must therefore have provided this leadership. To weaken this contention, it’s necessary to find an explanation for the recent upswing in business that’s not connected to him. An increase in demand for textiles (B) would be beyond his control, and thus could have led to an improvement in business no matter who was the CEO.

Multiple choice
  1. Tactical information system

  2. Status enquiry system

  3. Abstract system

  4. Closed system

  5. Probabilistic system

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The number of decisions in the operational management and the same at the middle management are such that they are based on one or two aspects of a decision making situation.

Multiple choice
  1. Closed system

  2. Abstract system

  3. Strategic information system

  4. Operational information system

  5. Output

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It is used by senior managers or top management to plan the objectives of their organizations, and to assess whether the objectives are being met in practice.

Multiple choice
  1. Operational feasibility

  2. Economic feasibility

  3. Technical feasibility

  4. Schedule feasibility

  5. Resource feasibility

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Operational feasibility is a measure of how well a proposed system solves the problems, and takes advantage of the opportunities identified during scope definition and how it satisfies the requirements identified in the requirements analysis phase of system development.