While Accountants and Financial Staff Are Concerned with Profitability in ____

question 89

Multiple Choice

While accountants and financial staff are concerned with profitability in ____ terms, salespeople are primarily concerned with profitability in ____ terms.

• A) Top-line, bottom-line
• B) Accounting, sales
• C) Profit/loss, revenue
• D) Cost-of-production, cost-of-sales
• E) Bottom-line, top-line

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Definitions:

Upward-Sloping Supply Curve

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Total Surplus

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Market for Hamburgers

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Scientific Management

One of the earliest approaches to management, was concerned with structuring individual jobs to maximize efficiency and productivity.