Question 1

Companies typically produce three types of budgets: operational budgets, cash budgets, and capital budgets. The following statements are about operational budgets. Select the answer choice containing the correct statement.

Options :

A : Expense budgets, a type of operational budget, typically describe fixed expenses rather than variable expenses.

B : Operational budgets can only show information by department or by line of business.

C : Operational budgets begin with a forecast of sales revenue and investment income.

D : Revenue budgets, a type of operational budget, indicate the amount of income from operations that a company received from the previous budget period

Answer: C

Question 2

Under GAAP, three approaches to expense recognition are generally allowed: associating cause and effect, systematic and rational allocation, and immediate recognition.

A health plan most likely would use the approach of systematic and rational allocation in order to:

Options :

A : Report the payment of the health plan-s utility bills

B : Spread the payment of sales force commissions over the premium paying period of healthcare coverage

C : Report the fees paid by the health plan to attorneys and consultants

D : Depreciate the cost of a new computer system over the useful life of the system

Answer: D

Question 3

In order to determine a health plan's quick liquidity ratio, a financial analyst would divide the health plan's:

Options :

A : Total assets not invested in affiliates by its total liabilities

B : Liquid assets by its total liabilities

C : Liquid assets by its contractual reserves

D : Total assets by its contractual reserves

Answer: C

Question 4

A health plan's costs can be classified as committed costs or discretionary costs. An example of a discretionary cost for a health plan is the cost of its:

Options :

A : Facilities

B : Executive salaries

C : Employee training

D : Equipment

Answer: A

Question 5

The Fairway health plan is a for-profit health plan that issues stock. The following data was taken from Fairway's financial statements:

Current assets.....$5,000,000 -

Total assets.....$6,000,000 -

Current liabilities.....$2,500,000

Total liabilities.....$3,600,000

Stockholders' equity.....$2,400,000

Fairway's total revenues for the previous financial period were $7,200,000, and its net income for that period was $180,000.

For the previous financial period, Fairway's net profit margin was:

Options :

A : 2.50%

B : 3.00%

C : 3.60%

D : 7.50%

Answer: A