Q.1

Which one of the following is included in financial ratios of the firm ?

  • Profitability ratio
  • Liquidity ratio
  • Turnover ratio
  • Ratio of overall performances
  • All of these
Q.2

The project contractor relies on the cost of the estimate :

  • for submission of a competitive bid for a lumpsum contract
  • for a unit price contract
  • for preparation of a definitive estimate to help negotiate contract.
  • All of these
Q.3

Pick up the correct statement from the following:

  • An annuity is a series of equal payments occurring at equal period of time.
  • Annuity is called an equal payment or uniform payment series.
  • An annuity may have periods of time of any length but should always be of equal length.
  • All the above.
Q.4

The sunk costs include :

  • a past expenditure
  • an unrecovered balance
  • an invested capital that cannot be retreived
  • All of these
Q.5

Ratio analysis of a construction firm is used for analysis by :

  • share holders
  • firm's management
  • Banks of the firm
  • financial analysts
  • All of these.
Q.6

Pick up the correct statement from the following:

  • The financial ratio summarises some aspect of the firm's financial condition at the time of preparing a balance sheet.
  • Both the numerator and denominator of financial ratios come directly from the balance sheet.
  • Income statement ratios compare one 'flow' item from the income statement to another flow item from the income statement.
  • Income statement ratios compare a flow item from the income statement to another flow item form the income statement
  • All of these
Q.7

Which one of the following questions is relevant to the construction estimates :

  • Did the estimators precisely evaluate site conditions ?
  • Did the estimators use short cut methods which may be un realistic in their situation ?
  • How much money will the contractor's risk, loosing if he Were to submit bid on the raw estimate of cost.
  • All of these
Q.8

The wages of supervisors and material handlers are charged as :

  • Over head
  • direct labour cost
  • indirect labour cost
  • None of these
Q.9

The construction estimate of a project is used by :

  • the owner of the facility
  • the consulting architect/engineer
  • the contractor of the project
  • All of these
Q.10

Current assests less inventories divided by current liabilities is known as

  • Liquidity ratio
  • Current ratio
  • Acid-Test (or Quick) ratio
  • Debts ratio
Q.11

The ratio obtained by dividing 'quick assests' by current liabilities is called

  • Turnover ratio
  • Acid test ratio
  • Solvency ratio
  • None of these.
Q.12

The CRF (ep) is also known as: [CRF(EP) -- 7], where

  • 8% is the rate of interest per year
  • money is borrowed for n = 7 years
  • both (a) and (b)
  • Neither (a) nor (b)
Q.13

Both architect and engineer make use of the cost estimate of the project:

  • for site selection
  • for designing of the project
  • for choosing alternatives
  • All of these
Q.14

Probabilistic estimating of a construction project includes:

  • Labour
  • Productivity
  • wage scale
  • All of these
Q.15

Pick up the correct statement from the following:

  • The capital required to get a project started is the first cost.
  • The first cost is a single cash flow or a series of cash flows that are made in the beginning of the activity's life span
  • The first cost of purchasing a car is the sum of the down payment, taxes and dealers charges.
  • All of these
Q.16

Which one of the following definitions, is correct ?

  • The ratio of total debt to share holder's equity is called 'debt ratio'.
  • The ratio debt-to-total assests is called Debt-to-total assest ratio.
  • The ratio of earnings before interest and taxes for a particular reporting period to the amount of interest charges for the period, is called interest coverage ratio.
  • All of these
Q.17

Annuities involve:

  • a series of payments
  • all payments of equal amount
  • payment at equal time intervals
  • payments at the end of periods.
  • All of these
Q.18

If a seller recovers his capital along with accumulated compensating interest not in one single lumpsum payment but in periodical equal payments, over time :

  • Capital Recovery Annuity fs availed
  • Present work Annuity is availed
  • Sinking Fund Annuity is availed
  • Sinking Fund Annuity is availed
Q.19

If a is the base amount expenditure, b is the increase in the operation cost each year over a period of n years, the total cost of maintenance is :

  • a + (n + 1) b
  • a + (n - 1) b
  • a x (n - 1) b
  • a - (n - 1) b
Q.20

The alternatives which are standalone solutions for given situations in engineering involve :

  • a purchase cost (first cost)
  • the anticipated life of the assest
  • the yearly costs of maintaining the assest (annual maintenance and operating cost)
  • the anticipated resaleable value (salvage value) and the interest return (rate of return)
  • All of these
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