Claritas™ Test Questions: Set 8 (60 Questions)

An alternative investment

A share in a company

A debt security

Decreasing computerisation and competition, regulation of the investment industry and globalisation

Advancements in computerisation, more competition, regulation of the investment industry and globalisation

Increasing computerisation and competition, deregulation of the investment industry and localisation

Financial market fairness and integrity

Laws enforced by a judicial power

A financial analysts report

An decrease in the trust of investors

An increase in the trust of investors

An decrease in the trust in financial markets

Perceiving a need->Consulting the public->Monitor

Perceiving a need->Removing a cost->Restarting

Removing a cost->Resolving a dispute->Monitor

Ensuring that some information with regard to financial market trades is made public e.g buy/sell prices

Ensuring that all companys report market transaction costs to the regulator

Ensuring that all cancelled high frequency trades are reported

When a large company splits to form separate companies in a spin off

A first trade of company shares in the secondary market

A company's first offering of shares, when it becomes a public company

Internal Fiduciary Reporting Standards

Internal Financial Restriction Standards

International Financial Reporting Standards

Profit and loss (P&L) statement

Cash Flow Statement

Balance Sheet

Cash incoming from buying buildings or equipment; cash outgoing from selling buildings or equipment

Cash incoming from sales; cash outgoing from cost of sales

Cash incoming from selling buildings or equipment; cash outgoing from buying buildings or equipment

Asset Turnover = Total Assets ÷ Total Liabilites

Asset Turnover = Revenues ÷ Total Assets

Asset Turnover = Revenues ÷ Total Liabilites

FV = Present Value x (1 + i)n

FV = Future Value x (1 + i)n

FV = Present Value x 1 + i

Data that can take any number of values between whole numbers

Data that can take only certain values - e.g. counting people

Data that contains negative values only

A change in one variable causes a change of the other variable in the opposite direction

A change in one variable causes a change of the other variable in the same direction

A change in one variable causes no change in the other variable

A determination to obtain goods and services at any cost

A specific instruction given to obtain goods and services

A consumer's desire and willingness to pay a price for a specific good or service

A change which makes the product less attractive, so demand decreases

A change which makes the product more attractive, so demand increases

An increase in consumption caused by a increase in income

Percent change in one variable leads to an equal percentage change in another variable

Percent change in one variable leads to a much larger percentage change in another variable

Percent change in one variable leads to a much smaller percentage change in another variable

The percentage increase in the income of people demanding a product

Percent change in price of one product divided by the quantity demanded for a different product

The ratio of the percentage change in demand, to the percentage change in the income of the people demanding the good

A measurement of the degree to which a firm or project incurs a combination of fixed and variable costs

A decrease in the marginal (per-unit) output of a production as the amount of a single factor of production is increased, while other factors stay the same

A decrease in the marginal (per-unit) output of a production as the amount of a single factor of production is increased, while other factors stay the same

Increased output per unit of labour

GDP adjusted for price levels

The explicit cost of a product

Industrial production

Employment

Money in circulation

Mortgage costs

Producer Price Index (PPI)

GDP adjusted for price levels

Government tax and spending policy to influence the economy

Central bank spending to influence the money supply

Buying equities on a countries stock exchange

Tariffs applied to restrict the import of goods from another country

Both tariffs and quotas applied to restrict the import of goods from another country

Quotas applied to restrict the import of goods from another country

Domestic and foreign income

Money received from foreign investments

Net domestic and foreign investments