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Meghalaya Police Service Preliminary Examination 2022 - Multiple Subjects

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Under auditing standards, who has primary responsibility for preventing and detecting fraud in an entity?
1. Management and those charged with governance
2. The external auditor alone
3. The shareholders individually
4. The entity’s bank
Under section 138 of the Companies Act, 2013, which professional is expressly named alongside a Chartered Accountant as eligible to conduct an internal audit?
1. Cost Accountant
2. Chartered Accountant
3. Tax Consultant
4. Solicitor
Under section 139(8) of India’s Companies Act, 2013, for a company whose auditor is not appointed by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, who initially fills a casual vacancy caused by the auditor’s resignation, subject to members’ approval at a general meeting?
1. Board of directors
2. Managing director
3. Annual general meeting
4. Court of law
When partners agree to share the firm’s profits in proportions different from their capital contributions, what governs each partner’s share?
1. Partnership agreement
2. Subsequent contribution
3. Undistributed balance
4. Final liquid payment
Which phrase best expresses the mutual-aid principle underlying cooperation?
1. Autocratic management
2. One share-one vote rule
3. Everyone's liability
4. Each for all and all for each
Which term describes an enterprise owned or controlled by government?
1. Private enterprise
2. State-owned enterprise
3. Member-owned cooperative
4. Publicly listed company
Which financial indicator is a clear symptom of industrial sickness?
1. Sustained improvement in net worth
2. Substantial erosion of net worth due to accumulated losses
3. Consistently rising capacity utilisation
4. Improved ability to meet current obligations
Modernisation is commonly described as having what broad character?
1. Synergy
2. Global
3. Smart
4. Operational
Which concept is commonly described as the only constant in organisational life?
1. Uncertainty
2. Super-structure
3. Change
4. Conflict
An organisation set up primarily to address a community need while reinvesting its surplus in that mission is best described as what type of enterprise?
1. Give-one-and-take-one enterprise
2. Learn-for-the-future enterprise
3. Secure-business enterprise
4. Social enterprise
What is an agreement among competing firms to coordinate prices or output, thereby restricting competition?
1. Oligopoly
2. Monopoly
3. Price leadership
4. Cartel
A and B are partners admitting C. The new profit-sharing ratio is 7:5:4, and A and B sacrifice equally. What was the old ratio of A and B?
1. 3:2
2. 5:4
3. 2:1
4. 9:7
Which term describes a distinct product or market division within a large company that is managed as a separate business unit?
1. Strategic business unit
2. Functional department
3. Cost centre
4. Consulting unit
In Mintzberg’s classification of managerial roles, which category includes the negotiator role?
1. Decisional role
2. Interpersonal role
3. Informational role
4. Operational role
What is a quantified plan of expected results for a specified future period called?
1. Budget
2. Forecast
3. Programme
4. Policy
Maintaining statutory records, arranging company meetings and supporting corporate compliance are generally what type of company-secretary duties?
1. Administrative duties
2. Financial duties
3. Production duties
4. Sales duties
Which area of law is especially relevant to a company secretary’s statutory filings, meetings and corporate records?
1. Company law
2. Contract law
3. Criminal procedure
4. Property law
In the conventional company-formation sequence, who ordinarily arranges the initial appointment of a company secretary before the first board is constituted?
1. Shareholders
2. Directors
3. Promoters
4. Creditors
For a company whose secretary is appointed by its board, which body ordinarily has authority to remove the secretary, subject to applicable law and contract?
1. Board of directors
2. CEO of the company
3. Bankers of the company
4. Auditors of the company
What term describes an organisation’s collective ability to coordinate diverse skills and integrate multiple technologies?
1. Dynamic firm
2. Dynamic entity
3. Core competence
4. Virtual organisation
What is the term for the number of subordinates a manager can effectively supervise?
1. Span of control
2. Span of dominance
3. Span of balance
4. Span of adequacy
Which type of organisation has deliberately established roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships?
1. Formal organisation
2. Informal organisation
3. Project organisation
4. Network organisation
Which analysis compares the additional revenue or benefit from a change in output with the additional cost?
1. Break-even analysis
2. Marginal analysis
3. Variance analysis
4. Cost-benefit analysis
In strategic management, what term describes an organisation’s long-term ambition to build and sustain competitive leadership?
1. Mission statement
2. Tactical objective
3. Operational plan
4. Strategic intent
Which management term describes general guidelines that guide managers’ thinking and decisions without prescribing a single step-by-step method?
1. Programs
2. Policies
3. Procedures
4. Rules
Which management approach sets agreed organisational and individual objectives and uses them to guide planning and performance review?
1. MBO
2. MBE
3. SCM
4. CRM
What are the areas of an organisation’s activities in which performance is critical to achieving its objectives?
1. Key result areas
2. Key performance indicators
3. Routine activities
4. Support functions
In organisational management, what term describes a combined effect in which the whole produces greater value than the separate contributions alone?
1. Integration
2. Synergy
3. Coordination
4. Specialisation
Which management theory, developed by William Ouchi, combines selected Japanese-style practices with features of U.S. organisations?
1. Theory Z
2. Theory X
3. Theory Y
4. Just-in-time (JIT)
What is the term for reporting suspected unethical or unlawful conduct within an organisation through a channel authorised to investigate or act on it?
1. Whistle-blowing
2. Grievance procedure
3. External audit
4. Code of ethics
Which field examines moral principles and obligations in business decision-making?
1. Corporate governance
2. Business ethics
3. Social responsibility
4. Smart governance
In the input–process–output model, what is the process by which managers coordinate resources to produce goods or services?
1. Transformation
2. Planning
3. Organising
4. Controlling
Which statement best reflects a fair approach when a company secretary develops a permanent disability affecting work?
1. It automatically permits dismissal without notice
2. Company losses automatically require dismissal
3. It does not by itself justify automatic dismissal; consider reasonable accommodation and applicable law
4. The employee must be retained regardless of all circumstances
In a company share issue, which task is a shareholder-facing secretarial communication?
1. Notify unsuccessful applicants of the outcome
2. Prepare minutes of a board meeting
3. Arrange directors’ sitting fees
4. Coordinate routine office work
Which situation may expose a company secretary to liability when it falls within the secretary’s assigned legal duties and responsibilities?
1. Failure to complete a required statutory filing or meeting-related duty
2. Misuse of power by the board, without the secretary’s involvement or responsibility
3. A court’s lawful intervention in company affairs
4. A competitor’s independent business decision
Which constitutional document may name a company’s first directors?
1. Prospectus
2. Memorandum of association
3. Articles of association
4. First audit report
Where applicable law or a company’s governing documents give an institution a nomination right, what is the director appointed through that right called?
1. Nominee
2. Additional
3. Casual vacancy
4. Managing
Under standard company articles, which body generally decides when to make a call on partly paid shares, subject to the articles and applicable law?
1. Board of directors
2. Shareholders individually
3. Company secretary alone
4. External auditor
Under section 180(1)(a) of India’s Companies Act, 2013, for a company to which that provision applies, what approval is generally required before the Board sells, leases or otherwise disposes of the whole or substantially the whole of an undertaking?
1. Special resolution of the company
2. Ordinary resolution of the company
3. Board resolution alone
4. Notice to creditors alone
For a proposed final dividend, which action does the Board ordinarily take before members consider it at a general meeting?
1. Recommend the dividend for declaration
2. Declare the final dividend on its own
3. Appoint the company’s directors
4. Transfer the profits to charity

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