The General Manager (Scenario)

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The General Manager (Scenario)
Jamal is the general manager of a production facility. In a routine day, Jamal might meet with city officials or civic leaders abo environmental issues, due to the plants presence in the community. After these meetings, he will then meet with the plant's fu managers to discuss the concerns expressed by the city representatives. Other times, Jamal might meet with the production m Basma, and the human resource manager, Rana, to discuss a complaint filed by one of the employees in a production department. Jamal might also spend time on the Internet looking for new technologies that can be used in the production processes of his plant.
-When Jamal gains information from city officials or civic leaders to learn how the plant's operations may be affecting the environment, he is performing which management role?

• A) monitor
• B) resource allocator
• C) entrepreneur
• D) leader

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Definitions:

WACC

The Weighted Average Cost of Capital represents the average cost of a company's financing (debt and equity), where each form of capital is weighted according to its proportion in the overall financing mix.

NPV

Net Present Value; a method used in capital budgeting to assess the profitability of an investment or project, calculated by discounting future cash flows to their present value and subtracting the initial investment.

IRR

The Internal Rate of Return, a financial metric used to evaluate the profitability of potential investments, calculated as the discount rate that makes the net present value of all cash flows equal to zero.

NPV Profiles

Graphs that show the relationship between a project's NPV and various discount rates, used to analyze the sensitivity of a project's value to changes in the cost of capital.