Your Trainees Are Given a Case Study Concerning a Local

question 34

Multiple Choice

Your trainees are given a case study concerning a local manufacturing firm called Acme Products. In assessing Acme's organizational structure, your trainees notice that all of the company's decisions are made by top management, with little or no input from lower-level personnel. The trainees most likely identify Acme as a(n) ________ organization.

• A) highly decentralized
• B) highly formalized
• C) highly departmentalized
• D) highly centralized
• E) informally structured

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Definitions:

Precautionary Balances

Cash balances held in reserve for random, unforeseen fluctuations in cash inflows and outflows.

EOQ Model

Economic Order Quantity, an inventory management model that determines the optimal order quantity to minimize total inventory costs, including holding and ordering costs.

Safety Stock

A level of extra inventory maintained to mitigate the risk of stockouts caused by variations in supply and demand.

DSO

Days Sales Outstanding; a measure of the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made.