As a qualified Management Accountant you have been asked by a non-financial manager to explain the CEO's recent comments, featured in the CEO's regular update to investors and analysts.
The CEO's update suggested the company, an established property development business, was about to pursue an exciting strategy. The strategy is to focus on conglomerate diversification, to be achieved through a number of pre-identified acquisitions, with the aim of significantly increasing shareholder value.
Which of the following statements is consistent with the concept of conglomerate diversification?
PQR is a charity which has an excellent reputation within its home country. PQR employs over 300 highly experienced staff and has 200 skilled volunteers. PQR's funding mainly comes from donations from the public but its public profile is low compared to larger, more publicized charities.
Due to a recent recession, public donations to PQR have fallen in the last five years, but demand for its services continues to grow.
The government of the country in which PQR operates is encouraging greater collaboration between charities and there have been several recent successful mergers within the charity sector. PQR has recently been approached by a high profile and well funded charity, DDD, with a merger proposal. DDD offers complementary services to those offered by PQR.
Which TWO of the following factors would most likely be considered as an 'opportunity' for PQR? (Choose two.)
GGGis currently undertakinga process of intuitive forecasting. A team of ten people has beenselected from all levels of management and from a range of functional departments,to take part in the process. An initial single question of 'How do we improvefuturecustomer satisfaction levels for GGG?' has been posed and all members of the teamhave beenasked to present a suggestion. No one is allowed to criticise another person's ideas.Thisprocess should giveGGG a forum for the expression and discussionof a wide range of ideas.
Which of the following intuitive forecasting techniquesisGGG undertaking?
DataminingisanimportantpartofanOrganization'sknowledgediscoveryprocess.
Effectivedataminingprovidesinsightandcanhelpunlockpreviouslyhiddenopportunities.
WhichofthefollowingaredisadvantagesofDataMining?
Select ALL that apply.
Which of the following is NOT a key attribute of a successful stretch target?