`The value of a commodity or service measured in terms of the standard monetary unit' describes:
Answer(s): B
The definition shown refers to the word 'price'. The price is what someone will pay for something - the extent to which a customer values something - and the reference to the standard monetary unit refers to, for example, a dollar, a Euro, a dinar or whatever. The other answers are, to some extent, intended to confuse, as they use some of the words shown in the definition. Care must be taken not to jump to a conclusion here. The response 'cost' should give pause for thought, as, in a sense, the cost of doing or making some- thing may have value. But value is determined by the customer - this definition is a reference to the value the customer would pay - the price.
Which of the following is least risky from the buyer's viewpoint?
Answer(s): D
Payment (the implication here is 'in full') 60 days after delivery allows the buying organisation time to check the goods carefully, and possibly even use them in that time. All of the other options would require the buyer to part with money prior to holding the goods, thus exposing that sum to risk. The least risky from the buyer's viewpoint is therefore after 60 days. Particularly hazardous would be payment at time of order.
A market situation where there is only one buyer in the marketplace is called:
A market with only one buyer is called a 'monopsony'.There may be other QUESTION NO :s in this test about the other terms shown, so I shall hold back on expla-nation(s) here.
'Shareholders are an example of stakeholders'. True or false?
Answer(s): A
Shareholders are one example of a range of stakeholders in a private or public limited company.
A contract clause which entitles the buyer to hold back 5% of the final price for six months to en-sure everything is in order is known as a --------- clause:
'Retention' - from the word 'retain', meaning to 'keep in place', 'hold back', 'keep possession of' something (Concise Oxford Dictionary, fifth edition) . In this case, 5% of the contract price.
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