Kaizen Is a Japanese Term Referring to __________________________

question 104

Multiple Choice

Kaizen is a Japanese term referring to __________________________.

• A) just-in-time production
• B) continuous improvement
• C) employee involvement
• D) concurrent engineering
• E) simplicity

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Definitions:

Risk Premium

The additional return over the risk-free rate that investors require as compensation for investing in risky assets.

Coefficient of Variation

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a data series around the mean, expressed as a percentage of the mean, often used to assess the risk of an investment relative to its expected return.

Historical Excess Returns

The returns on an investment or portfolio in excess of a benchmark or risk-free rate, assessed over a specific historical period.

Geometric Mean Return

The average rate of return on an investment that takes into account the effects of compounding.