In Terms of Accountability, Most Agencies, Boards, and Commissions Report

question 47

Multiple Choice

In terms of accountability, most agencies, boards, and commissions report to:

• A) the deputy minister of a line department
• B) the President of the Treasury Board
• C) a minister of the Crown
• D) the governor general or lieutenant governor

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Definitions:

Price of Capital

This entails the expenses linked to acquiring and utilizing capital goods, such as machinery, indicating the return investors demand for use of their capital.

Cost-Minimizing

A strategy or process of finding the most efficient way to produce goods or services at the lowest possible cost.

Inputs

The resources (such as labor, capital, materials, and energy) used in the production process to produce goods and services.

Marginal Product

The increase in output that results from employing one more unit of a factor of production, holding all other factors constant.