ECONOMICS
ECONOMICS
Ans: A
An economic study is made of the total amount cost (C)
for a series of alternative investment (P) for a given
project. IF C is plotted as the ordinate versus P, the
most desirable occurs when
a. dC/dP =1
b. dC/dP =CO
c. dC/dP = 0
d. dC/dP = +1
Ans: C
Reduction in the level of national income and output
usually accompanied by the fall in the general price
level
a. Devaluation
b. Deflation
c. Inflation
d. Depreciation
Ans: B
It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal
interval of time.
a. Annuity
b. Debt
c. Amortization
d. Deposit
Ans: A
The place where buyers and sellers come together
a. Market
b. Business
c. Recreation center
d. Buy and Sell Section
Ans: D
A market whereby there is only one buyer of an item
for which there are no good substitute
a. Monopsony
b. Oligopoly
c. Monopoly
d. Oligopsony
Ans: A
It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal
interval of time where the first payment is made after
several periods, after the beginning of the payment
a. Perpetuity
b. Ordinary Annuity
c. Annuity due
d. Deferred Annuity
Ans: D
The total income equals the total operating cost
a. Balanced Sheet
b. In-place Value
c. Check and Balance
d. Break even-no gain no loss
Ans: D
Kind of Obligation which has no condition attached
a. Analytic
b. Pure
c. Gratuitous
d. Private
Ans: C
Direct Labor cost incurred in the factory and direct
materials cost are the costs of all materials that go into
production. The sum of these two direct costs is known
as
a. GS and A expenses
b. Operating and maintenance costs
c. Prime Cost
d. O and M costs
Ans: C
An index of short term paying ability is called
a. Receivable turn-over
b. Profit margin ratio
c. Current ratio
d. Acid-test ratio
Ans: D
An artificial expenses that spreads the purchase price
of an asset or another property over a number of years
a. Depreciation
b. Sinking fund
c. Amnesty
d. Bond
Ans:A
Estimated value at the end of the useful life
a. Market Value
b. Fair Value
c. Salvage Value
d. Book Value
Ans: C
Consists of the actual counting or determination of the
actual quantity of the materials on hand as of a given
date
a. Physical inventory
b. Material Update
c. Technological Assessment
d. Material Count
Ans: A
Additional information of prospective bidders on
contract documents issued prior to bidding date
a. Delict
b. Escalatory
c. Technological Assessment
d. Bid Bulletin
Ans: D
An evil wrong committed by a person damaged anither
person’s property or reputation is
a. Tort
b. Material breach
c. Negligence
d. fraud
Ans: A
A series of uniform accounts over an infinite period of
time
a. Depreciation
b. Annuity
c. Perpetuity
d. Inflation
Ans: C
The quantity of a given commodity that is offered for
sale at a certain price at a given place and time
a. Demand
b. Supply
c. Stocks
d. Goods
Ans: B
Work-in process is classified as
a. An asset
b. A Liability
c. An Expenses
d. An owner’s equity
Ans: A
What is the highest position in the corporation?
a. President
b. Board of Directors
c. Chairman of the Board
d. Stockholders
Ans: C
Type of ownership in business where individuals
exercise and enjoy the right in their own interest
a. Equitable
b. Public
c. Private
d. Pure
Ans: C
Decrease in the value of a physical due to the passage
of time
a. Inflation
b. Depletion
c. Recession
d. Depreciation
Ans: D
An association of two or more individuals for the
purpose of operating a business as co-owners for profit
a. Sole proprietorship
b. Company
c. Partnership
d. Corporation
Ans: C
We may classify an interest rate, which specifies the
actual rate of interest on the principal for one year as
a. Nominal rate
b. Rate of return
c. Exact interest rate
d. Effective rate
Ans: D
Parties whose consent or signature in a contract is not
considered intelligent
a. Dead persons
b. Senior Citizens
c. Demented Persons
d. Minors
Ans: C
It is defined to be the capacity of a commodity to
satisfy human want
a. Discount
b. Luxury
c. Necessity
d. Utility
Ans: B
It is the amount which a willing buyer will pay to a
willing seller for a property where each has equal
advantage and is under no compulsion to buy or sell
a. Fair value
b. Market Value
c. Book Value
d. Salvage Value
Ans: B
This occurs in a situation where a commodity or service
is supplied by a number of vendors entering the market
a. Perfect competition
b. Oligopoly
c. Monopoly
d. Elastic Demand
Ans: A
These products or services that are desired by human
and will be purchased it money is available after the
required necessities have obtained
a. Utilities
b. Necessities
c. Luxuries
d. Product goods and services
Ans: C
These are products or services that are required to
support human life and activities, that will be
purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though
the price varies considerably
a. Utilities
b. Necessities
c. Luxuries
d. Product goods and services
Ans: B
A condition where only few individuals produce a
certain product and that any action of one will lead to
almost the same action of the others
a. Oligopoly
b. Semi-monopoly
c. Monopoly
d. Perfect Competition
Ans: A
Grand total of the assets and operational capability of a
corporation
a. Authorized capital
b. Investment
c. Subscribed capital
d. Money Market
Ans: A
The worth of the property equal to the original cost less
depreciation
a. Scrap Value
b. Face Value
c. Market Value
d. Book Value
Ans: D
Money paid for the use of borrowed capital
a. Discount
b. Credit
c. Interest
d. Profit
Ans: C
Liquid assets such as cash and other assets that can be
converted quickly into cash, such as accounts
receivable and merchandise are called
a. Total assets
b. Fixed assets
c. Current assets
d. None of the above
Ans: C
The length of time which the property may be operated
at a profit
a. Physical life
b. Economic life
c. Operating life
d. All of the above
Ans: B
The provision in the contract that indicates the possible
adjustment of material cost and labor cost
a. Secondary clause
b. Escalatory clause
c. Contingency clause
d. Main clause
Ans: B
The present worth of all depreciation over the
economic life of the item is called
a. Book value
b. Capital recovery
c. Depreciation recovery
d. sinking fund
Ans: C
Gross profit sales less cost of good sold, as a
percentage of a sales is called
a. Profit margin
b. Gross margin
c. Net income
d. Rate of return
Ans: B
Worth of the property as shown in the accounting
records of an enterprise
a. Fair value
b. Market Value
c. Salvage Value
d. Book Value
Ans: D
Those funds that are required to make the enterprise
or project a going concern
a. Initial investment
b. Current Accounts
c. Working capital
d. Subscribed capital
Ans: C
A market situation where there is only seller with many
buyer
a. Monopoly
b. Monopsony
c. Oligopoly
d. Oligopsony
Ans: A
A market situation where there are few sellers and few
buyers
a. Oligopoly
b. Oligopsony
c. Bilateral Oligopoly
d. Bilateral Oligopsony
Ans: C
A market situation where there is one seller and one
buyer
a. Monopoly
b. Monopsony
c. Bilateral Monopoly
d. Bilateral Monopsony
Ans: C
A market situation where there are only two buyers
with many sellers
a. Duopoly
b. Oligopoly
c. Duopsony
d. Oligopsony
Ans: C
The cumulative effect of elapsed time on the money
value of an event, based on the earning power of
equivalent invested funds capital should or will earn
Ans: C
Defined as the future value minus the present value
a. Interest
b. Discount
c. Discount
d. Capital
Ans: C
The flow back of profit plus depreciation from a given
project is called
a. Capital recovery
b. Cash flow
c. Economic Return
d. Earning Value
Ans: B
The profit derived from a project or business enterprise
without consideration of obligations to financial
contributions or claims of other based on profit
a. Economic return
b. Yield
c. Earning value
d. Expected Yield
Ans: A
The payment for use of borrowed money is called
a. loan
b. Maturity value
c. Interest
d. principal
Ans: C
The interest rate at which the present work of the cash
on a project is zero of the interest earned by an
investment.
a. Effective rate
b. Nominal rate
c. Rate of return
d. Yield
Ans: C
The ratio of the interest payment to be principal for a
given unit of time and usually expressed as a
percentage of the principal
a. interest
b. Interest rate
c. investment
d. All of the above
Ans: B
The true value of interest rate computed by equations
for compound interest for a 1 year period is known as
a. Expected return
b. Interest
c. Nominal interest
d. Effective interest
Ans: D
The intangible item of value from the executive right of
a company in a stated region of the country
a. Market value
b. Book Value
c. Goodwill value
d. Franchise value
Ans: D
The recorded current value of an asset is known as
a. Scrap value
b. Salvage value
c. Book value
d. Present value
Ans: C
Scrap value of an asset is sometimes known as
a. Book value
b. Salvage value
c. Replacement value
d. Future value
Ans: B
Sometimes called second hand value
a. Scrap value
b. Salvage value
c. Book value
d. Going value
Ans: B
An intangible value which is actually operating concenr
has due to its operation
a. Book Value
b. Fair value
c. Goodwill Value
d. Going Value
Ans: D
The value which has a disinterested third party,
different from the buyer and seller, will determine in
order to establish a price acceptable to both parties
a. Market Value
b. Goodwill value
c. Fair value
d. Franchise value
Ans: C
A type of annuity where the payments are made at the
end of each payment period starting from the first
period
a. Ordinary annuity
b. Annuity due
c. Deferred annuity
d. Perpetuity
Ans: A
A type of annuity where the payments are made at the
start of each period, beginning from the first period
a. Ordinary annuity
b. Annuity due
c. Deferred annuity
d. perpetuity
Ans: B
Which is NOT an essential element of an ordinary
annuity?
Ans: C
A is a periodic payment and I is the interest rate, then
present worth of a perpetuity=
a. Ai
b. Ain
c. Ain /i
d. A/i
Ans: D
A mathematical expression also known as the present
value of an annuity of one called
a. Load factor
b. Demand factor
c. Sinking fund
d. Present worth factor
Ans: D
As applied to a capitalized asset, the distribution of the
initial cost by a periodic changes to operation as in
depreciation or the reduction of a debt by either
periodic or irregular prearranged program is called
a. Annuity
b. Capital recovery
c. Annuity factor
d. amortization
Ans: D
The reduction of the value of an asset due to constant
use and passage of time
a. Scrap value
b. depletion
c. depreciation
d. Book value
Ans: C
A method of computing depreciation in which the
annual charge is a fixed percentage of the depreciation
book value at the beginning of the year to which the
depreciation applies.
Ans: D
A method of depreciation whereby the amount to
recover is spread uniformly over the estimated life of
the asset in terms of the periods or units of output
Ans: C
Which of the following depreciation methods cannot
have a salvage value of zero?
a. Straight line method
b. Sinking fund method
c. Declining balance method
d. SYD method
Ans: C
A method of depreciation where a fixed sum money is
regularly deposited at compound interest in a real or
imaginary fund in order to accumulate an amount
equal to the total depreciation of an asset at the end of
the asset’s estimated life
Ans: B
The function of interest rate and time that determines
the cumulative amount of a sinking fund resulting from
specific periodic deposits
Ans: A
The first cost of any property includes
Ans: D
In SYD method, the sum of years digit is calculated
using the formula with n= number of useful years if the
equipment
a. N(N-1)/1
b. N(N+1)/2
c. N(N+1)
d. N(N-1)
Ans: B
Capitalized cost of any property is equal to the
a. Annual cost
b. First cost + interest of the first cost
c. First cost + interest of perpetual maintenance
d. First cost + salvage value
Ans: C
The lessening of the value of an asset due to the
decrease in the quantity available (referring to the
natural resources, coal, oil, etc.)
a. Depreciation
b. Depletion
c. Inflation
d. Incremental cost
Ans: B
Is the simplest form a business organization
a. Sole proprietorship
b. partnership
c. Enterprise
d. corporation
Ans: A
A distinct legal entity which can practically transact any
business transaction which a real person could do
a. Sole proprietorship
b. enterprise
c. partnership
d. corporation
Ans: D
An association of two or more persons for a purpose of
engaging in a profitable business
a. Sole proprietorship
b. Enterprise
c. partnership
d. Corporation
Ans: C
Double taxation is a disadvantage of which business
organization?
a. Sole proprietorship
b. partner
c. corporation
d. enterprise
Ans: C
Which is NOT a type of a business organization?
a. Sole of Proprietor
b. Corporation
c. Enterprise
d. PArtnership
Ans: C
What is the minimum number of incorporators in order
that a corporation be organized?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 10
d. 7
Ans: B
In case of Bankruptcy of a partnership
a. The partners are not liable for the liabilities of the
partnership
b. The partnership assets excluding the partners
personal assets only will be used to pay the liabilities
c. The partners personal assets are attached to the debt
of the partnership
d. The partners may sell stock to general additional
capital
Ans: C
Which is TRUE about partnership ?
Ans: B
Which is true about corporation?
Ans: D
Represent ownership and enjoys certain preferences
than ordinary stock
Ans: B
Represent the ownership of stockholders who have a
residual claim on the assets of the corporation after all
other claims have been settled
Ans: D
The amount of company’s profit that the board of
directors of the corporation decides to distribute to
ordinary shareholders
a. Dividend
b. Return
c. Share stock
d. Par value
Ans: A
A certificate of indebtness of a corporation usually for a
period not less than 10 years and guaranteed by a
mortgage on certain assets of the corporation
a. Bond
b. T-Bill
c. Preferred stock
d. Common Stock
Ans: A
A form of fixed-interest security issued by central or
,local government , companies, banks or other
institutions. They are usually a form of long-term
security , buy may be irredeemable, secured or
unsecured
a. Bond
b. T-bills
c. Certificate of deposit
d. All of these
Ans: A
A type of bond where the corporation pledges
securities which it owns (i.e. Stock, bonds of the
subsidiaries)
a. Mortgage
b. Registered Bond
c. Coupon bond
d. Collateral trust bond
Ans: D
A type of bond which does not have security except a
promise to pay by issuing corporation
a. Mortgage bond
b. Registered bond
c. Collateral trust bond
d. Debenture bond
Ans: D
A type of bond issued jointly by two or more
corporations
a. Joint bond
b. Debenture bond
c. Registered bond
d. Collateral trust bond
Ans: A
A type of bond whose guarantee is in lie on railroad
equipments
Ans: A
If the security of the bond is a mortgage on certain
specified asset of a corporation, this bond is classified
as
a. Registered bond
b. Mortgage bond
c. Coupon bond
d. Joint bond
Ans: B
A type of bond where the corporation’s owners name
are recorded and the interest is paid periodically to the
owners with their asking for it
a. Registered Bond
b. Preferred bond
c. Incorporators bond
d. All of these
Ans: A
Bond to which are attached coupon indicating the
interest due and the date when such interest is to be
paid.
a. Registered bond
b. Coupon bond
c. Mortgage bond
d. Collateral trust bond
Ans: B
An amount of money invested at 12 % interest per
annum will double in approximately
a. 4 years
b. 5 years
c. 6 years
d. 7 years
Ans: C
The 72 rule thumb is used to determine
Ans: B
To triple the principal, one must use
a. integration
b. derivatives
c. logarithms
d. Implicit functions
Ans: C
A currency traded in a foreign exchange market for
which the demand is consistently high in relation to its
supply
a. Money market
b. Hard currency
c. Treasury bill
d. Certificate of deposit
Ans: B
Everything a company owns and which has a money
value is classified as an asset. Which of the following is
classified as an asset
a. Intangible assets
b. Fixed assets
c. Trade investments
d. All of these
Ans: D
Which is an example of an intangible asset?
a. Cash
b. Furniture
c. Investment in subsidiary companies
d. Patents
Ans: D
Land, buildings, plant and machinery are examples of
a. Current assets
b. Trade investment
c. Fixed assets
d. Intangible assets
Ans: C
An increase in the value of a capital asset is called
a. Profit
b. Capital Gain
c. Capital Expenditure
d. Capital stock
Ans: B
The reduction in the money value of a capital asset is
called
a. Capital expenditure
b. Capital loss
c. loss
d. Deficit
Ans: B
It is a negotiable claim issued by a bank lieu of a term
deposit
a. Time deposit
b. Bond
c. Capital gain
d. Certificate of deposit
Ans: D
Any particular raw material or primary product ( e.g.
Cloth, wool, flour, coffee) is called
a. Utility
b. Necessity
c. commodity
d. stock
Ans: C
It denotes the fall in the exchange rate of one currency
in terms of others. The term usually applies to floating
exchange rates
a. Currency appreciation
b. Currency devaluation
c. Currency float
d. Currency depreciation
Ans: D
The deliberate lowering of the price of a nation’s
currency in terms of the accepted standard (Gold,
American dollar or the British pound)
a. Currency appreciation
b. Currency devaluation
c. Currency float
d. Currency depreciation
Ans: B
The residual value of a company’s assets after all
outside liabilities (Shareholders excluded) has been
allowed for
a. Dividend
b. Equity
c. Return
d. Per value
Ans: B
A saving which takes place because goods are not
available for consumption rather than the consumer
really want to save.
a. Compulsory saving
b. Consumer saving
c. Forced saving
d. All of these
Ans: C
A document that shows proof of legal ownership of a
financial security
a. Bond
b. Bank notes
c. Coupon
d. check
Ans: C
Defined as the capacity of commodity to satisfy human
want
a. Discount
b. Necessity
c. Luxuries
d. Utility
Ans: C
It is the profit obtained by selling stocks at a higher
price than its original purchase price
a. Debenture
b. Goodwill
c. Capital Gain
d. Internal rate of return
Ans: C
The quantity of a certain commodity that is offered for
sale at a certain price at a given time and place
a. Demand
b. Supply
c. Utility
d. Market
Ans: B
The quantity of a certain commodity that is bought at a
certain price at a given time and place
a. Demand
b. Supply
c. Market
d. Utility
Ans: A
“When free competition exists, the price of a product
will be that value where supply is equal to the demand”
Ans: D
“ When one of the factors or production is fixed in
quantity or is difficult to increase, increasing the other
factors of production will result in a less than
proportionate increase in output”
Ans: A
GATT stands for
Ans: A
The letter D in the Roman Numerals is
a. 50
b. 100
c. 500
d. 1000
Ans: C
MACHINE DESIGN
Heating above the transformation range, usually 1300 F
to 1350 F , and cooling slowly to soften the metal and
increase in machining
a. Annealing
b. Hardening
c. Normalizing
d. Tempering
Ans: A
Heating above the transformation temperature and
quenching usually in oil, for the purpose of increasing
the hardness:
a. Annealing
b. Hardening
c. Normalizing
d. Tempering
Ans: B
Reheating to a temperature below the transformation
range, followed by any desired rate of cooling to attain
the desired properties of the metal
a. annealing
b. hardening
c. tempering
d. Stress relieving
Ans: C
Heating to a subcritical temperature, about 1100 F to
1300 F and holding at that temperature for a suitable
time for the purpose of reducing internal residual
stresses
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b.
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Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D
An index of short term paying ability is called
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ans: D