Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 11

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Increasing the pay-for-performance sensitivity comes with the added benefit of reducing manager's risk.
• B)Stock and option grants give managers a direct incentive to increase the stock price to make their stock or options as valuable as possible.
• C)By tying compensation to performance,the shareholders effectively give the manager an ownership stake in the firm.
• D)During the 1990s,most companies adopted compensation policies that more directly gave managers an ownership stake by including grants of stock or stock options to executives.

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Definitions:

Product

Any item or service that is created through a process and is intended to be supplied to a market to satisfy a want or need.

Fixed Costs

Expenses that do not change in total despite fluctuations in the volume of goods or services produced.

Sunk Costs

Costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered or changed, which should not influence future business decisions.

Opportunity Costs

The value of the best alternative forgone in making any decision, representing the benefits that could have been received from that alternative.