The Triple Bottom Line Looks at All of the Following

question 42

Multiple Choice

The triple bottom line looks at all of the following except

• A) how decisions impact profits and revenue.
• B) how decisions impact sustainability and the planet.
• C) how decisions impact employees and consumers.
• D) how decisions impact the relationship between the U.S. and other nations.

Calculate key financial metrics such as net income, return on equity, and asset turnover to assess company performance.

Understand the concepts of leverage, liquidity, and their differences in financial context.

Apply financial information to evaluate the financial strength and operational efficiency of a company.

Understand the concept and objectives of the balanced scorecard system.

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Definitions:

Policies

Guidelines or principles that direct actions towards specific goals or objectives, often set by governments, organizations, or institutions.

Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs)

Limits (quotas) set by a government or a fisheries commission on the total number or total weight of a species that an individual fisher can harvest during some particular time period; fishers can sell (transfer) the right to use all or part of their respective individual quotas to other fishers.

Tragedy of the Commons

A situation in which individuals act according to their own self-interest regarding a shared resource, depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.

Economic Growth

An increase in the capacity of an economy to produce goods and services, compared from one period of time to another.