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Waterfield Company is looking for a way to help its executive managers assess how its three divisions are meeting the company's goals and objectives for financial performance. Which of the following metrics might be used for this purpose?


A) operating income and cash flows
B) customer satisfaction rating and the number of customer returns
C) the amount of time employees spend in training and the number of training sessions provided
D) the material price variance and the material quantity variance

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Performance measurement systems are used to assess how well a company is performing relative to the goals FASB sets for the company.

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Accounting metrics, such as operating income, make business decision-making processes more complex.

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Which of the following is not one of the elements of the balanced scorecard?


A) strategic plan
B) performance perspectives
C) strategic objectives
D) performance metrics

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Alexander and Kristin are executive managers at Safety First Fall Safety Equipment Co. They decide to discontinue gathering data and calculating performance metrics within their organization because the company's balanced scorecard performance metrics have produced several quarters in a row of good news. They assume the positive results will continue. Alexander and Kristin have made this decision as a result of a cognitive bias known as


A) uncommon measures bias
B) common measures bias
C) surrogation
D) motivated reasoning

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Which of the following is not a correct example of a performance target?


A) Achieve 50 hours of training time per production employee per year.
B) Reduce employee turnover by 25% in the next 12 months.
C) Increase on-time deliveries to customers by 75% in the next quarter.
D) Include the internal processes component in the balanced scorecard.

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Cassie works at LoftCo, Inc., in the Employee Training Department where her work is focused on the learning and growth perspective of the balanced scorecard performance management system. While it is critical that the work in her performance area is linked to at least one strategic objective within the company, it is not necessary for performance metrics to be tied to the strategic objective.

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Jace is an executive at a large but decentralized corporation that uses the balanced scorecard. It would be reasonable for her to suggest using scorecard cascading to help her large company more effectively ensure that individuals throughout the company support its overriding strategy.

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A measure map is different from a strategy map because it shows the expected relationships among performance metrics based on the strategy map.

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Describe a reason why CSR capital investments must be measured qualitatively.

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When the benefits of CSR capit...

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Which of the following is not an example of a capital investment project that focuses on minimizing resource waste and environmental degradation as a CSR objective?


A) Iron Mills Event Planning invests in an employee wellness and fitness center.
B) Foxburg Manufacturing invests in a soil reclamation project near its production plant to reclaim a piece of land affected by its wastewater flow.
C) Parker Mining invests in planting more trees and vegetation than required by the local laws on fields created by its strip mining efforts.
D) Clinton Industries invests in water shed reclamation efforts to bring trout back to local streams and waterways.

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Alexander and Kristin are executive managers at Safety First Fall Safety Equipment Co. They realize that within the last several quarters, they have been heavily focused on the online customer satisfaction rating as though it is the strategic objective rather than focusing on the customers as the company's real goal. Alexander and Kristin realize they have fallen prey to a cognitive bias known as


A) uncommon measures bias
B) common measures bias
C) surrogation
D) motivated reasoning

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Which of the following is an example of a strategic performance measurement system?


A) product costing system
B) lean management system
C) standard cost system
D) balanced scorecard

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Ivell Packaging Company produces paper and plastic packaging products. All of the following may be considered an initiative undertaken as a part of the company's CSR efforts except


A) hosting a health and wellness fair for the employees and the community
B) training customer service employees on the latest upgrade to the technology used to take orders from customers
C) installing a cafeteria and coffee shop in response to an employee questionnaire about workplace well-being
D) investing funds in equipment to reduce the amount of plastic waste generated by the production process

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Corporate social responsibility is best described as the efforts a company takes to increase corporate profits.

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Match the following descriptions and examples with the four performance perspectives in the balanced scorecard (a-d). -Focuses on operational efficiencies and issues like improving manufacturing performance A)Financial B)Internal processes C)Learning and growth D)Customer

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The balanced scorecard has five performance perspectives: financial, learning and growth, internal processes, customer, and supply chain.

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Carolina, the accountant for Duke Manufacturing, tells Jacob, who works in customer service for Duke, that that their company's customer satisfaction rating predicts sales revenue in dollars. Carolina's comment indicates that sales revenue is


A) a leading indicator
B) a lagging indicator
C) both a leading and a lagging indicator
D) a nonfinancial metric

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What is a sustainability balanced scorecard? What are two ways it is created?

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A sustainability balanced scorecard is a...

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A strategy map links the four perspectives of the BSC with strategic objectives, strategic initiatives, performance metrics, and performance targets.

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