Lauren Is a Financial Manager

question 168

Multiple Choice

Lauren is a financial manager.As a member of her company's middle management team,her job is to ensure that the company has adequate cash to make required payments and to find good short-term investment opportunities when her company temporarily has more cash than necessary.Her efforts include developing a cash budget for the next year to identify when the company might have surpluses or shortages of cash.This would be described as which of the following?

• A)operational planning
• B)contingency planning
• C)tactical planning
• D)strategic planning

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Definitions:

Resistance Stage

Third stage of the stress response, when the person attempts to adapt to the stressor. The body stabilizes; hormone levels stabilize; and heart rate, blood pressure, and cardiac output return to normal.

Alarm Stage

The initial reaction of the body's stress response, characterized by the activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the secretion of stress hormones.

Burnout

A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress, usually from the workplace.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

A relaxation technique involving tensing and then slowly relaxing each muscle group, to reduce stress and anxiety.