Title: Functional Areas
Course: Demo 1

Q: Which function is responsible for aligning staffing plans to organizational strategies and goals?
- operations
- accounting
- management
A: management

Q: When products and services are produced or provided, which function is responsible for ensuring that those products and services meet high quality standards?
- management
- operations
- accounting
A: management; operations

Q: Which function is responsible for understanding customer needs and aligning products and services to those needs?
- management
- operations
- marketing
A: marketing

Q: Which function is responsible for creating financial reports that can be used to evaluate the financial performance of the business?
- management
- finance
- accounting
A: accounting

Q: Which function is responsible for raising the funds required for the business to grow?
- marketing
- accounting
- finance
A: finance

Q: InfoTech is a computer application firm based in Silicon Valley and has been responsible for introducing some of the highest rated applications available for personal productivity. Two brothers originally founded the company, but they quickly realized they needed to convert the business into a corporation and establish functional areas within the company to handle various aspects of operations. The company is now considering expanding operations by building a production facility in another country. The Board of Directors has approved this move, and now it will become the responsibility of which functional area to secure the necessary funding for the expansion?
- marketing
- accounting
- finance
A: finance

Q: Petite Palate is a gourmet baby food company founded in 2006. Petite Palate’s founders believe that frozen baby food is healthier than baby food in jars or pouches, but the company struggled to get its product into the freezer section in grocery stores. The consumer was not accustomed to looking in the freezer for baby food. Which function was responsible for understanding consumer behavior and aligning product to consumer preferences?
- management
- operations
- marketing
A: marketing

Q: Varvitsiotis Architecture is a commercial architecture company founded in 1996. Their primary client base is private businesses and industries. They have little experience bidding on or designing projects for government entities, such as Department of Defense or the State of Alabama. Recently, the U.S. government announced an economic stimulus program that is intended to jumpstart construction. However, these funds were allocated to public (government) projects where the firm currently does not have a presence. Which function in Varvitsiotis Architecture would have primary responsibility for defining a business strategy that would create success for the company in this environment?
- marketing
- accounting
- management
A: management