A Business Entity Is Generating Small Operating Losses Year After

question 10

Multiple Choice

A business entity is generating small operating losses year after year and has a large positive cash flow from operations year after year.

• A) It is an impossible situation.
• B) It is a business entity that provides little value added beyond providing an infrastructure (such as the provision of pipe lines or of rail tracks right-of-ways)and continuously invests in rapidly depreciable assets.
• C) It is a business that is doomed.
• D) It is an entity that cannot invest in any new assets.

Analyze financial statements to identify key performance indicators.

Understand the importance of the minimum required rate of return in financial decision-making.

Calculate and interpret the turnover ratio.

Understand the benefits of decentralization on managerial performance and motivation.

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