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1. An employee is about to be sent on a course on how to interview potential new employees. It is expected that the emloyee will need this skill in about a year.  This course would be described as

2. What type of system can be defined as “A file, or set of related files, which many users can access and use without constraining the file contents”

3. ‘IFAC’ stands for

4. With regard to diversity of employment, which one of the following features is normally regarded as untrue?

5. Managers and directors are said to have a ‘fiduciary duty’ towards the company they work for. This means that they

6. Which motivational theory makes use of the term ‘hygiene’?

7. Which of the following is not part of the classical 4 Ps marketing mix?

8. Which writer is associated with terms such as ‘loose’, ‘tight’, ‘contingent’ ?

9. With what are the initials ‘NED’ associated?

10. “The IT manager can advise, but not insist, that all users of the company system run anti-virus software and do not download any files from the internet.

What relationship does the IT manager have with other departments?”

11. Which approach to economics focuses on the supply of money and interest rates?

12. Which of the following is not one of Porter’s 5 Forces?

13. Which of the following is likely to be a feature of taller, narrower organizations?

14. Which of the following statements about counselling is true?

15. Which of the following is correct?

16. Which of the following have to comply with the Financial Reporting Standards

17. A manager who is very keen to establish and implement the best way for staff to accomplish their tasks is adopting what approach to management

18. If assumptions within a spreadsheet are changed and the results monitored, what sort of investigations have been carried out?

19. Which of the following in unlikely to be a barrier to communication?

20. “Mintzberg’s diagrams of organizational structure contained a number of components.

Which one of the following would relate to middle managers?”

21. Segregation of duties 

22. Which management theorist is associated with the term ‘shamrock organisation’?

23. A UK company has upgraded its computer system and despite many training opportunities an employee cannot operate the new system. That employee

24. Which of the following is not an expected result caused by improving the system of internal control?

25. Which of the following would be most useful in the credit control function?

26. It is the function of a remuneration committee to

27. Who is associates with ‘experiental learning’

28. Which of the following could include ‘key players’ ?

29. Which type of business organisation has its liability to creditors limited

30. Which of the following is associated with the Hawthorn Experiments?

31. “John is a manager who is good at setting out his required tasks on a ‘to-do’ list. He is also prepared to switch his telephone to ‘Divert’ and to close his office door to indicate that interruptions are unwelcome. However, he frequently has to work late at night to finish off his less important and urgent tasks. He has a relatively high turnover of staff”

John’s time-management appears to suffer from poor:

32. Action-centred leadership implies a manager giving attention to:

33. Which writer is associated with the ‘hierarchy of needs”?

34. A company’s office has suffered a fire that destroyed the file server. Data can probably be recovered provided the company had previously implemented a policy of:

35. The control environment can best be described as

36. A database management system is

37. Which one of the following statements is true?

38. A person resident in the UK has been given a poor credit reference because of incorrect data held on the manual system of a UK credit reference agency.

Has the person any legal redress under the Data Protection Act 1998?

39. Which of the following departments would be expected to have most responsibility for managing a company’s long term borrowing needs?

40. Honey and Mumford identified four learning styles. These are

41. ‘Structural unemployment’ refers to

42. On the Blake and Mouton grid, a person who is at position 9,0 has adopted what style of management?

43. A job advert asking for people under a certain weight runs the risk of:

44. The collection of information relating to all customers can be described as:

45. Which writer is associated with how international perspectives can affect corporate culture?

46. The person who looks after a department has no great charm or expertise, yet manages to do a reasonable job.

What type of power is this person exercising?

47. If a country’s currency strengthens on the foreign exchange markets, which of the following is likely to occur?

48. It is the responsibility of external auditors to produce an audit report which is addressed to:

49. A increase in interest rates is liable to

50. Which of the following is not a fundamental principle of the ACCA’s Code of Ethics and Conduct?