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Free CIMA E3 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 7

Questions 61

As a CIMA qualified management accountant working within a manufacturing company, you are subject to both CIMA's Code of Ethics and your company's Code of Business Conduct.

Which TWO of the following statements are TRUE? (Choose two.)

Options:
A.

As a CIMA qualified Management Accountant you must follow CIMA's Code of Ethics.

B.

Where there is a difference between CIMA's Code of Ethics and the company's Code of Business Conduct, the company's Code of Business Conduct takes priority.

C.

Both CIMA's Code of Ethics and the company's Code of Business Conduct must be based on a set of basic principles.

D.

Both CIMA's Code of Ethics and the company's Code of Business Conduct include References to Confidentiality. Disclosure on public interest grounds is therefore prohibited.

E.

A company's Code of Business Conduct can be rules based.

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Questions 62

Place the correct label against each of the descriptors for the main principles of the UK Corporate Governance Code.

E3 Question 62

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Questions 63

Kanter identified seven 'power skills' that change agents need to overcome apathy or resistance to change. Which of the following are power skills?

 

Select ALL that apply.

Options:
A.

Ability to work independently.

B.

Ability to collaborate effectively.

C.

Ability to develop relationships based on trust.

D.

Ability to keep within a budget.

E.

Ability to work ethically and sustainably.

F.

Ability to keep projects to a strict time-line.

Questions 64

HHH intends to introduce a Balanced Scorecard to assist with its strategic policy formation and achievement of strategic plans. Which TWO of the following stakeholders are addressed by a Balanced Scorecard perspective?

Options:
A.

Shareholders

B.

National government

C.

Local government

D.

Managers

E.

Local residents

F.

Customers

Questions 65

CIMA has conducted research into the implications of sustainability for business.  CIMA's report contained a number of key conclusions. Which of the following statements was NOT a conclusion in CIMA's report? 

Options:
A.

Strong ethical principles can add great value to a brand.

B.

Reporting on sustainability needs to provide hard evidence of the positive impact on society.

C.

Management Accountants have a responsibility to promote an ethics-based culture.

D.

The ethical tone within a business must come from the bottom.

Questions 66

Mission statements set out the purpose of an Organization to a range of stakeholders who have an interest in what the Organization does. As an employee, you have been asked to assess the effectiveness of your Organization's mission statement.

 

Which of the following would NOT help the effectiveness of a mission statement?

Options:
A.

Mission statements should be specific enough to impact Organizational behaviour.

B.

Mission statements should communicate the Organization's distinctive advantages.

C.

Mission statements should be flexible, realistic and attainable.

D.

Mission statements should be aspirational and capture the imagination of stakeholders. 

Questions 67

Which of the following categorizations would be correct, according to McFarlan's Strategic Grid, for a system which is critical to sustaining existing business but its future strategic importance is considered to be low?

Options:
A.

Turnaround

B.

Support

C.

Strategic

D.

Factory

Questions 68

STU is a government funded university in Country V. The senior management team of STU uses the 3 E's approach (Economy. Efficiency and Effectiveness) to evaluate the performance of the university and to set performance measures.

Which of the following measures would be categorised as a measure of the 'Effectiveness' of STU, based upon the 3 E's approach?

Options:
A.

Percentage of students leaving STU with a first class degree.

B.

Average class size.

C.

Expenditure per department.

D.

Lecturer to student ratio.

Questions 69

Kaplan and Norton developed a model called the Balanced Scorecard to assist in the formation and achievement of strategic policy.  Within this model are four perspectives. Which of the following statements is NOT applicable to a Balanced Scorecard perspective?

Options:
A.

To succeed financially, how should we appear to our shareholders?

B.

To achieve our vision, how should we appear to our customers?

C.

To achieve our vision, how will we sustain our ability to change and improve?

D.

To achieve our vision, how should we appear to our stakeholders?

Questions 70

YYY is a profit-seeking provider of television channels. It broadcasts to some 55 countries using satellite and cable technologies. It also commissions and produces about 30% of the programs it broadcasts, to give it a unique competitive advantage against other broadcasters.

 

Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for YYY and it has developed a strong social media component to its programming schedules to increase audience engagement.

 

Keeping YYY's divisions working together is crucial to its success as a business.

 

Which of the following methods of divisional Performance Measurement would you recommend to YYY? 

Options:
A.

Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard

B.

Lynch and Cross's Performance Pyramid

C.

Stern Stewart's Economic Value Added (EVA)

D.

Rappaport's Shareholder Value Analysis (SVA)