ACCA 商语挑战赛 2016Accounting and Business Challenge

Q1:请真实填写以下信息，以便接收晋级通知和领奖

Q2:Q1. An email from Personnel reads: Staff wishing to enroll for the Accounts course should contact Jane Fellows, who needs to know numbers.Staff should inform Jane Fellows that:

Q3:Q2.A machine is in use every day. The machine has worked with no problems for 16 of the last 20 days.How likely is it that the machine will be faulty on day 21?

Q4:Q3. A company records the length of time customers spend on its website. This histogram shows the results.[图片]How many people spent between 20 and 35 minutes on the website?

Q5:Q4. ABC Co. is working out the selling price of a new car. 20% of the price must be profit; the rest is the production cost. The production cost for the car is $2832.Which formula below is correct to calculate the selling price of the car?

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Q6:Q5/Fill in the blank/When people are faced with a choice they are usually expected to make a decision. In the business world this often involves (A)………… a conclusion about a complex situation. It is the (B)………… at which plans,policies and objectives are (C)………… into concrete actions. When managers are trying to attain company goals in a competitive environment, they are long-range in their (D)…………, and this process is broadly (E)………… as strategy. A strategic decision will therefore (F)………… into account a wide range of uncertainties, including what others do or might do, so that a definite advantage is achieved over competitors.

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Q7:Q6/Reading comprehension/Sarah Smallwood describes a national skills shortage and the work of the Bindeman Foundation.‘Our order book is full, but I am short of ten people to do fairly simple but responsible and well-paid jobs. We train on the job, of course, but new people need basic skills which they just don’t seem to have.’The situation Adrian Wilson is describing here is a typical one. He is the Managing Director of a specialised manufacturing company, but he tells us that his problem can be multiplied dozens of times over in the industrial park where his business is located. In fact, across the nation there is a skills gap which must be filled if the country is to have a future in manufacturing and IT, or keep its status as a world centre of excellence in the financial and banking sectors. Even service industries such as tourism are beginning to have trouble recruiting staff with the necessary skills. However, it is in his own sector that Adrian Wilson says there is the most urgent and immediate need for good, competent staff, with solid skills and the ability to learn and improve on the job.Mike Head, Director of Operations at an international transport company, has in the past found many job candidates unable to do simple mathematics or communicate effectively. Above that level, far too few have acquired any technical skills involving the use of machinery, IT software, or, as he most recently found out, even the most basic sales and marketing knowledge. A series of posts requiring a general understanding in this area have been advertised now for several weeks and are still unfilled.A further point Adrian Wilson makes is that not only does he have problems finding suitable new people to work for him, he even has great difficulty filling his training courses, especially the more advanced ones for young people leaving university rather than school. He says it is not a question of general systems failure or lack of availability of suitable trainers or of funding. With the present skills shortage, companies are very keen to invest in more training for their employees. The problem is that, after several years of studying, too many students coming out of college or university with good degrees are content to stop learning the moment they finally walk away from the classroom. It would clearly be wrong to say they show lack of intelligence; they simply lack the ambition to go any further. They think they know enough already.Here at the Bindeman Foundation, over a period of a year, trainees are offered confidential sessions away from their immediate colleagues and the stresses of their personal lives, friends and family. The essential requirement is that they be put in a position where they can learn to think for themselves. Once they realise that they themselves are in charge of their own learning, they can then be encouraged to think of ways of identifying success, dealing with failure, and achieving their personal goals.Training is free to both school-leavers and graduates so long as they have been in full-time state education and are now actively looking for a career in business. Until two years ago, trainers were trained and paid and administration costs covered from gifts made by generous individuals and companies. Now, however, the Bindeman Foundation has contracts with companies which work in close co-operation with it because they will benefit from being associated with those people involved in running the training courses.

Q8:Adrian Wilson complains that he cannot fill vacant positions in his company because many people...

Q9:To fill its latest vacancies, Mike Head's company was looking for people who...

Q10:According to Adrian Wilson, why is it becoming more difficult to run advanced training courses?

Q11:The Bindeman Foundation's priority is to help trainees learn to...

Q12:How does the Bindeman Foundation currently finance its courses?

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Q13:*If ACCA Qualification can take you into rewarding and challenging careers, would you go for it?