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Module 2 Conceptual Quiz :Accounting for Business Decision Making: Strategy Assessment and Control (Fundamentals of Accounting Specialization) Answers 2025

1. Role of product pricing

  • ❌ Product price is universally determined by costs

  • ❌ Price is determined by market and has little internal role

  • Price influences revenue earned and influences market demand

Explanation: Price affects both revenue (price × quantity) and customer demand. It is one of the most important internal decisions.


2. Factors that influence product prices (Check all that apply)

  • Costs

  • ❌ Cooperatives

  • Competitors

  • Customers

Explanation: The 3 main pricing influences are Costs, Competitors, Customers.


3. Julia Corporation pricing decisions (Check all that apply)

  • ❌ Charging a price lower than cost is never feasible

  • Short-term price below cost is possible

  • ❌ Long-term price below cost is possible

  • Long-term pricing below cost is difficult to sustain

Explanation:
Short-term: firms can price below cost to attract customers or utilize excess capacity.
Long-term: unsustainable because total costs must eventually be covered.


4. Avery Company in competitive market (Check all that apply)

  • Must review market price before competing

  • ❌ Will use cost-based pricing

  • Will use market-based pricing

  • ❌ Needs extra cost accuracy to determine price

Explanation: In competitive markets with low market share, firms follow market price, not cost-based pricing.


5. Best description of decentralization

  • Extent to which decision-making rights are distributed

  • ❌ Width of hierarchy

  • ❌ Static feature

  • ❌ Poor choice when local knowledge is important

Explanation: Decentralization = pushing decision rights down to where knowledge exists.


6. Transfer price definition

  • ❌ Fails to allocate profits

  • ❌ Always negotiated

  • Price applied to internal transfer of goods/services

  • ❌ Only cash transfers

Explanation: Transfer pricing applies to internal transactions between divisions.


7. Approaches to transfer pricing (Check all that apply)

  • Negotiated

  • Variable-cost

  • Market-price

  • Full-cost

Explanation: These are the four standard transfer-pricing methods.


8. Supplier division with excess capacity—acceptable price

  • ❌ True

  • False

Explanation:
With excess capacity, the supplier has no opportunity cost.
Minimum acceptable transfer price = variable cost only, not variable cost + contribution margin.


🧾 SUMMARY TABLE

Q Correct Answer Key Idea
1 Price influences revenue & demand Pricing impacts revenue & demand
2 Costs, Competitors, Customers 3 Cs of pricing
3 Short-term below cost OK; long-term unsustainable Pricing horizon
4 Market-based pricing; review market price Competitive markets
5 Distributed decision rights Decentralization
6 Internal transfer price Transfer pricing
7 All four listed Transfer-pricing approaches
8 False With excess capacity → min price = variable cost