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Question 1

1 / 1 pts
All governments need to clean up their act but they need to do so in an environment
which donors are not imposing inappropriate, over-hasty policy changes.
Correct!

True

False

Question 2
1 / 1 pts
In developed countries too, there is increasing recognition among companies that a
“one-size fits all” approach to CSR operations around the world is effective.

True

Correct!

False

Question 3
1 / 1 pts
Economic Punishments are some of the least effective deterrents to corruption.

True

Correct!

False

Question 4
1 / 1 pts
The goals of public sector engagement in CSR are likely different from country to
country.
Correct!

True

False

Question 5
1 / 1 pts
CSR is all about philanthropy or charitable work.

True

Correct!

False

Question 6
1 / 1 pts
Investment promotion agencies cannot play an important role facilitating effective
communication between investors and the government.

True

Correct!

False

Question 7
1 / 1 pts
Institutional investors acting as agents for ultimate beneficiaries are very often directly
remunerated on the basis of the performance of portfolio companies whether based on
company performance or better governance practices.

True

Correct!

False

Question 8
0 / 1 pts
Operational risk, such as loss of intellectual property from outsourcing of business
processes overseas, could lead to bankruptcy.
Correct Answer

True

You Answered

False

Question 9
1 / 1 pts
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act seeks to lay the ground for a culture of reactive management
of risks going beyond the proactive approach that has been common so far.

True

Correct!

False

Question 10
1 / 1 pts
Companies now realize that their ability to manage risks depends on anticipating risks,
detecting their risks more effectively and petrifying their systems to withstand shocks.

True

Correct!

False

Question 11
0 / 1 pts
The "equality is equity" principle states that one a company undergoes rehabilitation, all
creditors, whether secured or unsecured, should be placed on equal footing.
Correct Answer

True

You Answered

False

Question 12
1 / 1 pts
Foreign direct investment has grown steadily in volume but is minor source of
development finance

True

Correct!

False

Question 13
1 / 1 pts
Offshore companies not incorporate in the Philippines may underwrite Philippine issues
for foreign markets but not the domestic market.
Correct!

True

False

Question 14
1 / 1 pts
The entry of MNC increases competition and force domestic firms to imitate and/or
innovate.
Correct!

True

False

Question 15
1 / 1 pts
The corporations’ president, CEO, and CFO are not required to assume management
responsibility and accountability for financials statements.

True

Correct!

False

Question 16
1 / 1 pts
One motive of cross listing where the company will have fresh source of funds but also
have an enhancement in the marketability of its shares

Support share and opinion plans

Improve liquidity

Increase firm’s visibility and acceptance

Correct!

Increase firm’s share price

Question 17
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is not one of the five distinctive roles for public sector
engagement with CSR?

None of the choices

Facilitation

All of the choices

Correct!

Regularization

Demonstration
Question 18
1 / 1 pts
All of the following pertain to pro-privatization, except

Private sectors can do the functions and tasks more efficiently

Privatization will lead to lower prices, better quality, more options, lesser corruption,
lesser red tape, and faster delivery of both goods and services.

Correct!

Certain parts of the social terrain should remain closed to the market forces in order to
protect them from the unpredictability and ruthlessness of the market.

Taxpayers’ money will not be used to cover loses.

Question 19
1 / 1 pts
Within manufacturing, FDI inflows have been dominated by what sector which has a
share of 12.7% in the 2000-2007 period?

Petroleum

Correct!

Food and beverage

Chemical

Paper
Question 20
1 / 1 pts
One motive of cross listing where a secondary market for shares is created that can be
used to compensate local management and employees in foreign subsidiaries

Increase firm’s visibility and acceptance

Support takeover bids

Increase firm’s share price

Correct!

Support share and opinion plans

Question 21
1 / 1 pts
An investment account open to a narrow range of investors that take on a wider range
of investment and trading activities in addition to traditional longterm investment funds

Investment Banking

Mutual Fund

Correct!

Hedge Fund

Investment Trust
Question 22
1 / 1 pts
A professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from
many investors and invests typically in investments securities which includes stocks,
bonds, short-term money market instruments, other mutual funds and securities.
Correct!

Mutual Fund

Hedge Fund

Investment Trust

Pension Fund

Question 23
1 / 1 pts
Companies able to guarantee the observance of ethical behaviors through the whole
production cycle by binding of all of their supply chain partners to their own ethical code,
may have positive effects in terms of which of the following

good relations with institutions and social organizations

Correct!

All of the choices

confidence of the ethical investors and consumers

improvements of market reputation


Question 24
1 / 1 pts
One of the reasons to not transfer state-owned assets into private hands because the
public does not have any control or oversight of private companies

Concentration of Wealth

Cuts in Essential Services

Correct!

Accountability

Downsizing

Question 25
1 / 1 pts
One of the justifications for CSR which relates to minimizing the potential adverse effect
of CSR on local communities, environments, and markets when it is imposed through
international supply chains and investments.

None of the choices

Proactive

Directive

Correct!
Defensive

Question 26
1 / 1 pts
It has become an important source of private external finance for developing countries

SMEs

MNCs

Institutional Investing

Correct!

FDIs

Question 27
1 / 1 pts
One of the different ranges of application for CSR in the international perspective which
is about the need to promote a new economic development model that would secure
the needs of the current generation without any concession on the chance of the future
generation to enjoy theirs

Local Economy and Society

Correct!

Sustainable Development and Environment

Human Labor Rights


None of the choices

Question 28
1 / 1 pts
Refers to the effect the presence of MNCs has on domestic firms in the same sector

Institutional investing

Correct!

Horizontal spill over

Vertical spillover

Cross listings

Question 29
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is an example of an institutional investor in the Philippines?

GSIS

AFSLAI

Correct!

All of the choices

SSS
None of the choices

Question 30
1 / 1 pts
Philippine law generally treats foreign investors in the same manner as their domestic
counterparts with important exceptions outlined in the
Correct!

Foreign Investment Act

Omnibus Investment Act

Securities Regulations Code

Bureau of Trade Regulation and Consumer Protection Circulars

Question 31
1 / 1 pts
One of the key features of investment climate where businesses invest in projects
where there are they do not face credit constraints unrelated to their own performance

Technology Factors

Political Stability

Infrastructure
Correct!

Access to Finance and International Integration

Question 32
1 / 1 pts
One of the ways on how corrupt practices of MNCS affect other countries include the
following, except

All of the choices

Increasing Debt

Correct!

None of the choices

Bypassing Local Democratic Processes

Benefiting the Company, Not the Country

Question 33
1 / 1 pts
This drives prudential regulation such as capping the percentage of a company's equity
that can be held by an institutional investor and not just by individual investor concerns

short selling

Correct!

diversification
cross listing

investment banking

Question 34
1 / 1 pts
One of the reasons to transfer state-owned assets into private hands because a
company or an industry may be run or used by the government mainly as vehicles in
satisfying political goals.

Corruption

Correct!

Tainted Purpose

Dispersion of Resources

Political Influence

Question 35
1 / 1 pts
With regard to human labor rights, the entrepreneurial strategy of large enterprises
should be based on the following CSR demands:
Correct!

Be compliant and be consistent

Be compliant but not consistent


Be consistent but not compliant

Either be compliant or be consistent

Question 36
1 / 1 pts
One of the roles of institutional investors where institutional investors, especially those
whose investment is significant enough to earn a board seat can be the fearless
fiscalizers on corporate policies.

Monitoring

Correct!

Good Activist

Principal-Agent Role

Deterrent to Opportunism

Question 37
1 / 1 pts
One type of FDI motivated by access to local, natural, or human resources

Export Platform

Rationalized or vertically disintegrated

Correct!
Resource seeking

Import substituting

Question 38
0 / 1 pts
Domestic firms benefit from spillovers and externalities associated with FDI through the
following, except

None of the choices

You Answered

exports and international integrations

Correct Answer

movement of experienced workers from local to foreign firms

All of the choices

best practice demonstration and diffusion

creation of linkages becoming suppliers or customers

Question 39
1 / 1 pts
One of the different ranges of application for CSR in the international perspective which
is about the adherence to the applicable set of laws in force
Correct!

Legality

None of the choices

Local Economy and Society

Supply Chains

Question 40
1 / 1 pts
One of the ways on how civil society groups ca effectively fight corruption where they
need to be prepared to take on governments in innovative and sometimes
confrontational ways

None of the choices

Correct!

Mobilize Ordinary People

Help Increase Citizen Participation in Decision-Making

Push for Freedom of Information

Question 41
1 / 1 pts
MasterCard sends a customer a memo that discloses the true cost of borrowing with
each billing statement. It does this becaue it realizes that the customer has the right to
obtain credit

Correct!

be informed

choose

be heard

Question 42
1 / 1 pts
An investor-led organization of governance professionals with a mission to inspire and
promote effective standards of corporate governance to advance efficient markets and
economies world-wide

ADB

ICC

OECD

Correct!

ICGN

Question 43
1 / 1 pts
One of the roles of institutional investors where being a valued investor can, most of the
time, command better performance knowing that such an amount of money can be
pulled out by the investor anytime.

Principal-Agent Role

Good Activist

Deterrent to Opportunism

Correct!

Driver of Agent’s Performance

Question 44
1 / 1 pts
It is one of the ways of hiding the loot from corruption which is increasingly used for
confidential services to international elites

Western Banks

Offshore Banks and Companies

Correct!

Private Banking

Third World Assets

Question 45
1 / 1 pts
Provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to
common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international
policies.

IFAC

ADB

UNCTD

Correct!

OECD
Question 1
1 / 1 pts
With globalization, international market is showing little to no influence the development
of CSR.

True

Correct!

False

Question 2
1 / 1 pts
CSR is all about philanthropy or charitable work.

True

Correct!

False

Question 3
1 / 1 pts
All governments need to clean up their act but they need to do so in an environment
which donors are not imposing inappropriate, over-hasty policy changes.
Correct!

True

False

Question 4
1 / 1 pts
In developed countries too, there is increasing recognition among companies that a
“one-size fits all” approach to CSR operations around the world is effective.

True

Correct!

False

Question 5
1 / 1 pts
There immediate and complete closure all offshore centers in all countries is vital to
stopping the laundering of corrupt money and the draining of resources from the Third
World.

True

Correct!

False

Question 6
1 / 1 pts
Specific measures to promote and facilitate investments can be successful if they take
place within the context of, and not substituted for, broader policies for improving the
investment environment.
Correct!

True

False
Question 7
1 / 1 pts
Investment banks also provides auxiliary services such as market making and the
trading of derivatives, fixed income instruments, foreign exchange transactions,
commodity and equity securities.
Correct!

True

False

Question 8
1 / 1 pts
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act seeks to lay the ground for a culture of reactive management
of risks going beyond the proactive approach that has been common so far.

True

Correct!

False

Question 9
1 / 1 pts
Companies now realize that their ability to manage risks depends on anticipating risks,
detecting their risks more effectively and petrifying their systems to withstand shocks.

True

Correct!

False
Question 10
1 / 1 pts
The nature of institutional investors has evidently evolved over the years into a very
simple system of financial institutions and fund management companies with their own
corporate governance issues and incentive structures.

True

Correct!

False

Question 11
1 / 1 pts
The entry of MNC increases competition and force domestic firms to imitate and/or
innovate.
Correct!

True

False

Question 12
1 / 1 pts
The 1987 Constitution allows foreign nationals from owning land in the Philippines.

True

Correct!

False

Question 13
1 / 1 pts
Foreign direct investment has grown steadily in volume but is minor source of
development finance

True

Correct!

False

Question 14
1 / 1 pts
An insolvent company is essentially also a bankrupt company.

True

Correct!

False

Question 15
1 / 1 pts
Offshore companies not incorporate in the Philippines may underwrite Philippine issues
for foreign markets but not the domestic market.
Correct!

True

False

Question 16
1 / 1 pts
An investor-led organization of governance professionals with a mission to inspire and
promote effective standards of corporate governance to advance efficient markets and
economies world-wide

ADB

OECD

ICC

Correct!

ICGN

Question 17
1 / 1 pts
One of the justifications for CSR which relates to minimizing the potential adverse effect
of CSR on local communities, environments, and markets when it is imposed through
international supply chains and investments.

Proactive

Directive

None of the choices

Correct!

Defensive
Question 18
1 / 1 pts
One of the different ranges of application for CSR in the international perspective which
is about the adherence to the applicable set of laws in force

Supply Chains

None of the choices

Local Economy and Society

Correct!

Legality

Question 19
1 / 1 pts
Philippine law generally treats foreign investors in the same manner as their domestic
counterparts with important exceptions outlined in the

Omnibus Investment Act

Bureau of Trade Regulation and Consumer Protection Circulars

Securities Regulations Code

Correct!

Foreign Investment Act


Question 20
1 / 1 pts
An investment account open to a narrow range of investors that take on a wider range
of investment and trading activities in addition to traditional longterm investment funds
Correct!

Hedge Fund

Investment Banking

Investment Trust

Mutual Fund

Question 21
1 / 1 pts
It is one of the ways of hiding the loot from corruption which is increasingly used for
confidential services to international elites

Western Banks

Third World Assets

Correct!

Private Banking

Offshore Banks and Companies


Question 22
1 / 1 pts
One motive of cross listing where a secondary market for shares is created that can be
used to compensate local management and employees in foreign subsidiaries

Increase firm’s visibility and acceptance

Correct!

Support share and opinion plans

Increase firm’s share price

Support takeover bids

Question 23
1 / 1 pts
Provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to
common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international
policies.

ADB

UNCTD

Correct!

OECD

IFAC
Question 24
0 / 1 pts
Which of the following is not one of the five distinctive roles for public sector
engagement with CSR?

All of the choices

Demonstration

Facilitation

Correct Answer

Regularization

You Answered

None of the choices

Question 25
1 / 1 pts
One of the roles of institutional investors where being a valued investor can, most of the
time, command better performance knowing that such an amount of money can be
pulled out by the investor anytime.

Principal-Agent Role

Correct!

Driver of Agent’s Performance

Good Activist
Deterrent to Opportunism

Question 26
1 / 1 pts
One of the reasons to not transfer state-owned assets into private hands because the
public does not have any control or oversight of private companies

Downsizing

Cuts in Essential Services

Concentration of Wealth

Correct!

Accountability

Question 27
1 / 1 pts
This drives prudential regulation such as capping the percentage of a company's equity
that can be held by an institutional investor and not just by individual investor concerns
Correct!

diversification

cross listing

investment banking
short selling

Question 28
1 / 1 pts
One of the different ranges of application for CSR in the international perspective which
is about the need to promote a new economic development model that would secure
the needs of the current generation without any concession on the chance of the future
generation to enjoy theirs

Human Labor Rights

Correct!

Sustainable Development and Environment

Local Economy and Society

None of the choices

Question 29
1 / 1 pts
A professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from
many investors and invests typically in investments securities which includes stocks,
bonds, short-term money market instruments, other mutual funds and securities.

Pension Fund

Investment Trust
Hedge Fund

Correct!

Mutual Fund

Question 30
0 / 1 pts
Domestic firms benefit from spillovers and externalities associated with FDI through the
following, except

creation of linkages becoming suppliers or customers

You Answered

All of the choices

Correct Answer

movement of experienced workers from local to foreign firms

None of the choices

exports and international integrations

best practice demonstration and diffusion

Question 31
1 / 1 pts
Companies able to guarantee the observance of ethical behaviors through the whole
production cycle by binding of all of their supply chain partners to their own ethical code,
may have positive effects in terms of which of the following

confidence of the ethical investors and consumers

Correct!

All of the choices

improvements of market reputation

good relations with institutions and social organizations

Question 32
1 / 1 pts
It has become an important source of private external finance for developing countries

SMEs

Correct!

FDIs

MNCs

Institutional Investing

Question 33
1 / 1 pts
Refers to the effect the presence of MNCs has on domestic firms in the same sector

Vertical spillover

Correct!

Horizontal spill over

Institutional investing

Cross listings

Question 34
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is an example of an institutional investor in the Philippines?

GSIS

Correct!

All of the choices

None of the choices

AFSLAI

SSS

Question 35
1 / 1 pts
One of the ways on how corrupt practices of MNCS affect other countries include the
following, except

All of the choices

Increasing Debt

Correct!

None of the choices

Bypassing Local Democratic Processes

Benefiting the Company, Not the Country

Question 36
1 / 1 pts
One motive of cross listing where the company will have fresh source of funds but also
have an enhancement in the marketability of its shares
Correct!

Increase firm’s share price

Support share and opinion plans

Improve liquidity

Increase firm’s visibility and acceptance


Question 37
1 / 1 pts
MasterCard sends a customer a memo that discloses the true cost of borrowing with
each billing statement. It does this becaue it realizes that the customer has the right to

obtain credit

be heard

choose

Correct!

be informed

Question 38
1 / 1 pts
All of the following pertain to pro-privatization, except

Privatization will lead to lower prices, better quality, more options, lesser corruption,
lesser red tape, and faster delivery of both goods and services.

Correct!

Certain parts of the social terrain should remain closed to the market forces in order to
protect them from the unpredictability and ruthlessness of the market.

Private sectors can do the functions and tasks more efficiently


Taxpayers’ money will not be used to cover loses.

Question 39
0 / 1 pts
With regard to human labor rights, the entrepreneurial strategy of large enterprises
should be based on the following CSR demands:

Be compliant but not consistent

You Answered

Either be compliant or be consistent

Be consistent but not compliant

Correct Answer

Be compliant and be consistent

Question 40
1 / 1 pts
Within manufacturing, FDI inflows have been dominated by what sector which has a
share of 12.7% in the 2000-2007 period?

Chemical

Paper

Correct!

Food and beverage


Petroleum

Question 41
1 / 1 pts
One of the ways on how civil society groups ca effectively fight corruption where they
need to be prepared to take on governments in innovative and sometimes
confrontational ways
Correct!

Mobilize Ordinary People

None of the choices

Push for Freedom of Information

Help Increase Citizen Participation in Decision-Making

Question 42
1 / 1 pts
One of the reasons to transfer state-owned assets into private hands because a
company or an industry may be run or used by the government mainly as vehicles in
satisfying political goals.

Political Influence

Dispersion of Resources

Corruption
Correct!

Tainted Purpose

Question 43
1 / 1 pts
One of the roles of institutional investors where institutional investors, especially those
whose investment is significant enough to earn a board seat can be the fearless
fiscalizers on corporate policies.

Deterrent to Opportunism

Principal-Agent Role

Monitoring

Correct!

Good Activist

Question 44
1 / 1 pts
One type of FDI motivated by access to local, natural, or human resources

Import substituting

Rationalized or vertically disintegrated

Correct!

Resource seeking
Export Platform

Question 45
1 / 1 pts
One of the key features of investment climate where businesses invest in projects
where there are they do not face credit constraints unrelated to their own performance
Correct!

Access to Finance and International Integration

Infrastructure

Technology Factors

Political Stability

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