Which of the Following Most Accurately Describes the Task of Crafting

question 77

Multiple Choice

Which of the following most accurately describes the task of crafting a company's strategy?

• A) In most companies, strategy-making is the exclusive province of top management-owner-entrepreneurs, CEOs, and other very senior executives.
• B) The more a company's operations cut across different products, industries, and geographical areas, the more that headquarters executives have little option but to delegate considerable strategy-making authority to down-the-line managers in charge of particular subsidiaries, product lines, geographic sales offices, and plants.
• C) A company's board of directors generally takes the lead role in crafting a company's strategy.
• D) In most of today's companies, the lead strategy-making role is being assumed by an elite group of corporate entrepreneurs.
• E) Masterful strategies are nearly always the product of brilliant corporate entrepreneurs.

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Definitions:

Capacity

The maximum level of output that a company can sustain to produce in a given period under normal circumstances.

Absorption Costing

An approach in accounting where the total manufacturing expenses, including direct materials, direct labor, and both kinds of manufacturing overhead (variable and fixed), are included in a product's costing.

Variable Costing

An accounting method that includes only variable production costs (direct materials, direct labor, and variable manufacturing overhead) in product costs.

Product Cost

Product cost encompasses all costs directly involved in manufacturing a product, including raw materials, labor, and manufacturing overhead.