Commerce JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

22

Extractive industries may also be denominated as?

  • A. direct industries
  • B. service industries
  • C. primary industries
  • D. indirect industries
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23

One of the factors which critically determines the choice of occupation is?

  • A. training
  • B. skill
  • C. aptitude
  • D. interest
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24

Sudden technological changes can have the effect of making?

  • A. a company's management style ineffective
  • B. a company's product obsolete
  • C. the control mechanism difficult to implement
  • D. the motivational factors in the company difficult to monitor
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25

When a vendor supplies news papers from house to house and across the streets, the element of marketing mix involved is? 

  • A. product
  • B. price
  • C. promoting
  • D. place
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26

The main objective of a trade association can best be described as promoting and protecting ? 

  • A. the product
  • B. common interest
  • C. the market
  • D. customer's interest
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27

one of the criteria for differenciating consumer markets from industrial ones is the?

  • A. type of demand
  • B. type of supply
  • C. nature of service rendered
  • D. price of the goods
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28

Bank giro is a system where?

  • A. commercial banks can give loan to all customers.
  • B. a central bank opens accounts for commercial banks
  • C. a customer uses a cheque to pay several bills.
  • D. a customer closes his account by writing a cheque
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29

A person who undertakes any risk in insurance business is known as ? 

  • A. a broker
  • B. an underwriter
  • C. an insurer
  • D. an actuary
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30

Excise duties are paid on goods that are?

  • A. imported into the country
  • B. manufactured within the country
  • C. exported to other countries
  • D. kept in bonded warehouse
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31

The business organisation in which shareholders have equal votes is?

  • A. sole proprietorship
  • B. partnership
  • C. cooperative
  • D. limited liability company
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32

Erroneous real arrangement of financial figure such as writing N624 as N264 is called?

  • A. ommission
  • B. commission
  • C. transposition
  • D. principle
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33

Transportation, retailing and wholesaling industries rely heavily on?

  • A. banking
  • B. insurance
  • C. manufacturing
  • D. railway
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34

when it becomes necessary to liquidate a company, the first step to be taken is the appointment of a?

  • A. a receiver
  • B. an auditor
  • C. an account
  • D. a liquidator
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35

Taking a new product to a particular part of the country to test the reaction of consumers to the product is referred to as?

  • A. sales promotion
  • B. sampling
  • C. merchandising
  • D. advertising
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36

consumer sovereignty means that the consumer is?

  • A. a citizen
  • B. always independent
  • C. always wrong
  • D. always right
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37

The direct authority of a superior over his subordinate is known as?

  • A. staff authority
  • B. line authority
  • C. line and staff authority
  • D. lateral authority
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38

Rights issue means the?

  • A. issue of shares to the directors of a company.
  • B. issue of shares by a company only to the founders of the company
  • C. right of shareholders to vote on any issue
  • D. issue of shares to shareholders on favorable terms
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39

The main objective of corporate mergers is to?

  • A. minimize the effect of taxation
  • B. increase financial advantage
  • C. facilitate profit maximization
  • D. enhance economies of scale
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40

When does production ends?

  • A. When the goods are distributed to the wholesalers
  • B. When the goods reaches the retailer
  • C. When the goods reaches the final consumers
  • D. When the goods are fully packaged
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41

An arrangement by independent firms to share the market of their products on quota basics Is referred to as

  • A. Cartel
  • B. Syndicate
  • C. Trust
  • D. Integration
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42

What is the difference between current assets and current liabilities?

  • A. Working capital
  • B. nominal capital
  • C. capital employed
  • D. issued capital
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