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Engineering Economic Analysis MCQ

1. What do the sunk costs include?

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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2. Which of the following option is included in the financial ratios of the firm?

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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3. What is called the ratio obtained by dividing 'quick assets' by current liabilities?

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Correct Answer: Acid test ratio

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4. What is defined as the current assets minus inventories and prepaid expenses?

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Correct Answer: Quick ratio

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5. The common ratio is the ratio of:

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Correct Answer: Current assets to current liabilities

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

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Correct Answer: Current ratio

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

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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8. What is the basic accounting equation?

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Correct Answer: Assets = liability + owner’s equity

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

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Correct Answer: Liquidity

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10. The ability to meet debts as they become due is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Solvency

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11. 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?

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Correct Answer: Buffer stock

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12. A form of business firm which is owned and run by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Cooperative

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13. What is a government bond which has an indefinite life rather than a specific maturity?

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Correct Answer: Consol

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

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Correct Answer: Quick ratio

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

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Correct Answer: Net sale

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

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Correct Answer: Net income to owner’s equity

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17. The true value of interest rate computed by equations for compound interest for a 1 year period is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Effective interest

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

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Correct Answer: First cost + cost of perpetual maintenance

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19. 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 ______.

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Correct Answer: Amortization

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20. The flow back of profit plus depreciation form a given project is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Cash flow

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21. What refers to the saving which takes place because goods are not available for consumption rather than consumer really want to save?

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Correct Answer: Forced saving

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22. 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 ______.

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Correct Answer: Currency devaluation

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23. What refers to the negotiable claim issued by a bank in lien of a term deposit?

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Correct Answer: Certificate of deposit

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24. What is the reduction in the money value of capital asset is called?

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Correct Answer: Capital loss

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25. What is the increase in the money value of a capital asset is called?

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Correct Answer: Capital gain

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26. What is used when a quick estimate of the doubling time for the invested money is needed?

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Correct Answer: Rule of 72

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

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Correct Answer: Tax credit

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28. The ratio of the net income before taxes to net sales is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Profit margin ratio

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29. What is a measure of the average speed with which accounts receivable are collected?

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Correct Answer: Receivable turnover

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30. All are classified under direct labor expenses EXCEPT one. Which one?

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Correct Answer: Supervision cost

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31. All the proceeds which are received by the business as a result of the sale of goods is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Gross income

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

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Correct Answer: Journal

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33. What is a secondary book of accounts, the information of which is obtained from the journal is called?

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Correct Answer: Ledger

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34. What is used to record historical financial transactions?

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Correct Answer: Bookkeeping system

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35. What is the change in cost per unit variable change called?

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Correct Answer: Incremental cost

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

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Correct Answer: Cost of goods sold

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

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Correct Answer: Liquid assets

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38. 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?

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Correct Answer: Rate of return

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39. Lands, buildings, plants and machineries are example of what type of asset?

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Correct Answer: Fixed asset

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

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Correct Answer: Patents

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41. ______ 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.

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Correct Answer: Goodwill

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42. 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 ______.

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Correct Answer: Economic return

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

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Correct Answer: Stock

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44. Cash money and credit necessary to establish and operate an enterprise are generally called ______.

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Correct Answer: Capital

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

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Correct Answer: Equity

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46. What refers to the residual value of a company’s assets after all outside liabilities (shareholders excluded) have been allowed for?

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Correct Answer: Equity

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47. The amount of company’s profit that the board of directors of the corporation decides to distribute to ordinary shareholders is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Dividend

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48. What stock represents ownership and enjoys certain preferences than ordinary stock?

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Correct Answer: Preferred stock

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49. What represents the ownership of stockholders who have a residual claim on the assets of the corporation after all other claims have been settled?

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Correct Answer: Common stock

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50. An association of two or more persons for the purpose of engaging into a business for profit is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Partnership

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51. Aggregation of individuals formed for the purpose of conducting a business and recognized by law as a fictitious person is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Corporation

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52. Which is true about corporation?

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Correct Answer: The stock holders of the corporation are only liable to the extent of their investments.

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53. Which is true about partnership?

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Correct Answer: It can be handed down from one generation of partners to another.

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54. In case of bankruptcy of a partnership,

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Correct Answer: The partnership assets (excluding the partners personal assets) only will be used to pay the liabilities

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55. Double taxation is a disadvantage of which business organization?

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Correct Answer: Corporation

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56. What is the simplest form of business organization?

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Correct Answer: Sole proprietorship

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57. Is an artificial being created by operation of law, having the right of succession and the process, attributes and properties expressly authorized by the law or incident to its existence.

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Correct Answer: Corporation

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58. A form of business organization in which a person conducts his business alone and entirely for his own profit, being solely responsible for all its activities and liabilities.

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Correct Answer: Sole proprietorship

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59. What is the factor name of the formula [i(1+i)^n]/[((1+i)^n)-1]?

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Correct Answer: Capital recovery

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60. What is the factor name of the formula (1+i)^-n?

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Correct Answer: Single payment present worth

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61. What is the main reason why the sinking fund method of computing depreciation is seldom used in the industry?

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Correct Answer: The initial depreciation is low

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62. What refers to an imaginary cost representing what will not be received if a particular strategy is rejected?

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Correct Answer: Opportunity cost

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63. What method is often used in municipal project evaluations where benefits and costs accrue to different segments of the community?

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Correct Answer: Benefit-cost ratio

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64. What is normally used to compare alternatives that accomplish the same purpose but have unequal lives?

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Correct Answer: Annual cost method

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65. Capitalized cost of a project is also known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Life cycle cost

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66. What refers to the present worth of cost associated with an asset for an infinite period of time?

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Correct Answer: Capitalized cost

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67. The unrecovered depreciation which results due to poor estimates as to the life of the equipment is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Sunk cost

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68. The process of determining the value or worth of a physical property for specific reason is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Valuation

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69. In computing depreciation of an equipment, which of the following represents the first cost?

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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70. The first cost to be incurred if the piece of equipment now in place had been bought for a second hand dealer or some other business is called ______.

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Correct Answer: In-place value

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71. What refers to the value of an intangible item which arises from the exclusive right of a company to provide a specified product and service in a certain region of the country?

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Correct Answer: Franchise value

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72. What refers to the value of an asset which a disinterested third party, different from the buyer and seller, will determine in order to establish a price acceptable to both parties?

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Correct Answer: Fair value

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73. Salvage value is sometimes known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Second-hand value

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74. The amount of property in which a willing buyer to a willing seller for the property when neither one is under the compulsion to buy nor to sell is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Market value

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75. A mathematical expression also known as the present value of annuity of one is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Present worth factor

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76. What do you call the after-tax present worth of all depreciation effects over the depreciation period of the asset?

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Correct Answer: Depreciation recovery

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77. Using factor method, the depletion at any given year is equal to:

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Correct Answer: Initial cost of property times number of unit sold during the year divided by the total units in property

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78. What is another term for “unit method” for computing depletion?

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Correct Answer: Factor method

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79. The depletion allowance method of computing depletion is commonly known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Percentage method

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80. Under the depletion allowance method in computing depreciation, the depletion charge is equal to either ______ whichever is smaller.

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Correct Answer: Fixed percentage of gross income or 50% of the net taxable income

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81. What are the common methods of computing depletion charge?

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Correct Answer: Unit method and percentage method

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82. What is defined as the reduction of the value of certain natural resources such as mines, oil, timber, quarries, etdue to the gradual extraction of its contents?

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Correct Answer: Depletion

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83. The functional depreciation is sometimes called ______.

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Correct Answer: Adolescence

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84. What type of depreciation is due to the reduction of the physical ability of an equipment or asset to produce results?

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Correct Answer: Physical depreciation

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85. What type of depreciation is due to the reduction in the demand for the function that the equipment or asset was designed to render?

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Correct Answer: Functional depreciation

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86. The declining balance method is also known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Constant percentage method

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87. In what method of computing depreciation where it assumes that the annual cost of depreciation is a fixed percentage of the book value at the beginning of the year?

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Correct Answer: Declining balance method

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88. In what method of computing depreciation where it assumes that a sinking fund is established in which funds will accumulate for replacement purposes?

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Correct Answer: Sinking fund method

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89. In what method of computing depreciation where it assumes that the loss in value is directly proportional to the age of the equipment or asset?

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Correct Answer: Straight line method

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90. What is defined as the reduction or fall of the value of an asset due to constant use and passage of time?

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Correct Answer: Depreciation

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91. The price at which the callable bond will be redeemed from the bondholder is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Call value

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92. What is the feature of some bonds whereby the issuer can redeem it before it matures?

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Correct Answer: Callability

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93. What type of bond which can be redeemed before maturity date?

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Correct Answer: Callable bond

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94. What type of bond where the corporation’s owner name are recorded and the interest is paid periodically to the owners with their asking for it?

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Correct Answer: Registered bond

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95. A type of bond where the corporation pledges securities which it owns such as the stock or bonds of one of its subsidiaries.

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Correct Answer: Collateral trust bond

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96. A bond without any security behind them except a promise to pay by the issuing corporation is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Debenture bond

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97. What bond whose security is a mortgage on certain specified assets of the corporation?

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Correct Answer: Mortgage bond

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98. A type of bond to which are attached coupons indicating the interest due and the date when such interest is to be paid is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Coupon bond

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99. What type of bond whose guaranty is in lien on railroad equipment, such as freight and passenger cars, locomotives, etc.?

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Correct Answer: Equipment obligation bond

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100. What type of bond is issued jointly by two or more corporations?

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Correct Answer: Joint bond

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