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This is the Multiples Choice Questions Part 4 of the Series in Engineering Economics as one of the General Engineering and
Applied Sciences (GEAS) topic. In Preparation for the ECE Board Exam make sure to expose yourself and familiarize in
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and Applied Sciences (GEAS), Engineering Economy Books, Journals and other Engineering Economy References.
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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
151. Which is true about corporation?
A. It is worse type of business organization.
B. The minimum number of incorporators to start a corporation is three.
C. Its life is dependent on the lives of the incorporators.
D. The stock holders of the corporation are only liable to the extent of their investments.
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
152. Aggregation of individuals formed for the purpose of conducting a business and recognized by law as a fictitious
person is called ______.
A. Partnership
B. Investors
C. Corporation
D. Stockholders
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
153. An association of two or more persons for the purpose of engaging into a business for profit is called ______.
A. Entrepreneurship
B. Partnership
C. Proprietorship
D. Corporation
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
154. What represents the ownership of stockholders who have a residual claim on the assets of the corporation after all other
claims have been settled?
A. Authorized capital stock
B. Preferred stock
C. Incorporator stock
D. Common stock
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
155. What stock represents ownership and enjoys certain preferences than ordinary stock?
A. Authorized stock
B. Preferred stock
C. Incorporator’s stock
D. Presidential stock
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
156. The amount of company’s profit that the board of directors of the corporation decides to distribute to ordinary
shareholders is called ______.
A. Dividend
B. Return
C. Share of stock
D. Equity
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
157. What refers to the residual value of a company’s assets after all outside liabilities (shareholders excluded) have been
allowed for?
A. Dividend
B. Equity
C. Return
D. Par value
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
158. What refers to the claim of anyone to ownership?
A. Proprietorship
B. Assets
C. Equity
D. Liability
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
159. Cash money and credit necessary to establish and operate an enterprise are generally called ______.
A. Capital
B. Funds
C. Assets
D. Liabilities
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
160. What represents the share of participation in business organizations?
A. Franchise
B. Partnership
C. Stock
D. Corporation
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
161. The profit derived from a project or business enterprise without consideration of obligations to financial contributors
and claims of others based on profit is known as ______.
A. Yield
B. Economic return
C. Earning value
D. Gain
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
162. ______ is the element of value which a business has earned through the favorable consideration and patronage of its
costumers arising from its well known and well conducted policies and operations.
A. Status company
B. Big income
C. Known owners
D. Goodwill
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
163. Which of the following is an example of intangible asset?
A. Cash
B. Investment in subsidiary companies
C. Furniture
D. Patents
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
164. Lands, buildings, plants and machineries are example of what type of asset?
A. Current asset
B. Trade investment asset
C. Fixed asset
D. Intangible asset
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
165. What refers to the interest rate at which the present work of the cash flow on a project is zero of the interest earned by
an investment?
A. Economic return
B. Yield
C. Rate of return
D. Return of investment
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
166. What is another term for “current assets”?
A. Fixed assets
B. Non-liquid assets
C. Liquid assets
D. Ccash
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
167. What is an accounting term that represents an inventory account adjustment?
A. Cost of goods sold
B. Cost accounting
C. Standard cost
D. Overhead cost
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
168. What is the change in cost per unit variable change called?
A. Variable cost
B. Incremental cost
C. Fixed cost
D. Supplemental cost
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
169. What is used to record historical financial transactions?
A. Bookkeeping system
B. Ledger system
C. Balance check
D. General journal system
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
170. What is a secondary book of accounts, the information of which is obtained from the journal is called?
A. Balanced sheet
B. Ledger
C. Worksheet
D. Trial balance
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
171. The original record of a business transaction is recorded in this book.
A. Work book
B. Journal
C. Ledger
D. Account book
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
172. All the proceeds which are received by the business as a result of the sale of goods is called ______.
A. Net income
B. Gross income
C. Net revenue
D. Total sales
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
173. All are classified under direct labor expenses EXCEPT one. Which one?
A. Inspection cost
B. Testing cost
C. Assembly cost
D. Supervision cost
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
174. What is a measure of the average speed with which accounts receivable are collected?
A. Current ratio
B. Quick ratio
C. Acid test ratio
D. Receivable turnover
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
175. The ratio of the net income before taxes to net sales is called ______.
A. Current ratio
B. Inventory turnover
C. Profit margin ratio
D. Price-earnings ratio
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
176. What do you call a one-time credit against taxes?
A. Due credit
B. Tax credit
C. Credible credit
D. Revenue credit
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
177. What is used when a quick estimate of the doubling time for the invested money is needed?
A. Rule of 48
B. Rule of 36
C. Rule of 24
D. Rule of 72
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
178. What is the increase in the money value of a capital asset is called?
A. Profit
B. Capital gain
C. Capital expenditure
D. Capital stock
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
179. What is the reduction in the money value of capital asset is called?
A. Capital expenditure
B. Capital loss
C. Loss
D. Deficit
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
180. What refers to the negotiable claim issued by a bank in lien of a term deposit?
A. Time deposit
B. Bond
C. Capital gain certificate
D. Certificate of deposit
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
181. What denotes in the fall in the exchange rate of one currency in terms of the others? This term is usually applies to the
floating exchange rate.
A. Currency appreciation
B. Currency depreciation
C. Currency devaluation
D. Currency float
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
182. The deliberate lowering of the price of a nation’s currency in terms of the accepted standard (Gold, American dollar or
the British pound) is known as ______.
A. Currency appreciation
B. Currency depreciation
C. Currency devaluation
D. Currency float
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
183. What refers to the saving which takes place because goods are not available for consumption rather than consumer
really want to save?
A. Compulsory saving
B. Consumer saving
C. Forced saving
D. All of these
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
184. The flow back of profit plus depreciation form a given project is called ______.
A. Capital recovery
B. Cash flow
C. Economic return
D. Earning value
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
185. As applied to 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 programs is called ______.
A. Annuity
B. Amortization
C. Capital recovery
D. Annuity factor
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
186. Capitalized cost of any structure or property is computed by which formula?
A. First cost + interest of first cost
B. Annual cost – interest of first cost
C. First cost + cost of perpetual maintenance
D. First cost + salvage value
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
187. The true value of interest rate computed by equations for compound interest for a 1 year period is known as ______.
A. Expected return
B. Nominal interest
C. Effective interest
D. Economic return
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
188. Return on investment ratio is the ratio of the:
A. Net income to owner’s equity
B. Market price per share to earnings per share
C. Cost of goods sold to average cost of inventory at hand
D. Net credit sales to average net receivable
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
189. Gross margin is the ratio of the gross profit to ______.
A. Net sale
B. Owner’s equity
C. Inventory turnover
D. Quick assets
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
190. What is another term for “acid-test ratio”?
A. Current ratio
B. Quick ratio
D. Price-earnings ratio
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
191. What is a government bond which has an indefinite life rather than a specific maturity?
A. Coupon
B. T-bill
C. Debenture
D. Consol
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
192. A form of business firm which is owned and run by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit is called ______.
A. Cooperative
B. Corporation
C. Enterprise
D. Partnership
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
193. What is a stock of a product which is held by a trade body or government as a means of regulating the price of that
product?
A. Stock pile
B. Hoard stock
C. Buffer stock
D. Withheld stock
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
194. The ability to meet debts as they become due is known as ______.
A. Solvency
B. Leverage
C. Insolvency
D. Liquidity
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
195. The ability to convert assets to cash quickly is known as ______.
A. Solvency
B. Liquidity
C. Leverage
D. Insolvency
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
196. What is the basic accounting equation?
A. Assets = liability + owner’s equity
B. Liability = assets + owners’ equity
C. Owner’s equity = assets + liability
D. Owner’s equity = liability – assets
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
197. The financial health of the company is measured in terms of:
A. Liquidity
B. Solvency
C. Relative risk
D. All of these
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
198. What is an index of short-term paying ability?
A. Price-earnings ratio
B. Current ratio
D. Gross margin
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
199. The common ratio is the ratio of:
A. Net credit sales to average net receivable
B. Current assets to current liabilities
C. Gross profit to net sales
D. Net income to owner’s equity
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
200. What is defined as the current assets minus inventories and prepaid expenses?
A. Profit margin ratio
B. Price-earnings ratio
C. Return of investment ratio
D. Quick ratio
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

151. Which is true about corporation?

A. It is worse type of business organization.

B. The minimum number of incorporators to start a corporation is three.

C. Its life is dependent on the lives of the incorporators.

A. Authorized capital stock

158. What refers to the claim of anyone to ownership?

160. What represents the share of participation in business organizations?

163. Which of the following is an example of intangible asset?

B. Investment in subsidiary companies

B. Trade investment asset

166. What is another term for “current assets”?

167. What is an accounting term that represents an inventory account adjustment?

A. Cost of goods sold

169. What is used to record historical financial transactions?

D. General journal system

171. The original record of a business transaction is recorded in this book.

C. Acid test ratio

C. Profit margin ratio

176. What do you call a one-time credit against taxes?

C. Capital gain certificate

186. Capitalized cost of any structure or property is computed by which formula?

A. First cost + interest of first cost

B. Annual cost – interest of first cost

C. First cost + cost of perpetual maintenance

D. First cost + salvage value

188. Return on investment ratio is the ratio of the:

A. Net income to owner’s equity

B. Market price per share to earnings per share

C. Cost of goods sold to average cost of inventory at hand

D. Net credit sales to average net receivable

189. Gross margin is the ratio of the gross profit to ______.

190. What is another term for “acid-test ratio”?

C. Profit margin ratio

195. The ability to convert assets to cash quickly is known as ______.

196. What is the basic accounting equation?

A. Assets = liability + owner’s equity

B. Liability = assets + owners’ equity

C. Owner’s equity = assets + liability

D. Owner’s equity = liability – assets

197. The financial health of the company is measured in terms of:

198. What is an index of short-term paying ability?

C. Profit margin ratio

199. The common ratio is the ratio of:

A. Net credit sales to average net receivable

B. Current assets to current liabilities

C. Gross profit to net sales

D. Net income to owner’s equity

A. Profit margin ratio

C. Return of investment ratio

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