Benchmarking Allows a Company to

question 43

Multiple Choice

Benchmarking allows a company to

• A)identify its strengths and weaknesses.
• B)imitate those ideas that are readily transferable.
• C)improve on methods in use by others.
• D)all of the above.

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Definitions:

Dividend

A portion of a company's earnings distributed to shareholders, usually in the form of cash or additional stock.

Fed Funds Rate

The interest rate at which depository institutions trade federal funds (balances held at Federal Reserve Banks) with each other overnight.

Equilibrium Levels

The point at which market supply and demand balance each other, and as a result, prices become stable.

Real Interest Rates

Measures the borrowing cost of money after adjusting for inflation, providing a clearer view of the true cost of borrowing or the true yield on an investment.