Business Studies

Controlling

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Identify the function of management that brings back the management cycle back to the planning function.

Controlling

Directing

Staffing

Organising

✅ Correct Option: 1

Controlling brings the management cycle back to planning. When deviations are found during controlling, corrective actions may require revising the original plans, thus feeding back into the planning function. Planning is looking ahead while Controlling is looking back, together making them inseparable twins of management.

2025: 15 May Shift 1

"A footwear company has already measured its quantifiable and qualitative goals". Identify the step of the controlling process highlighted in the aforesaid statement.

2022: 16 July Shift 2

Controlling function of management is :

2025: 3 June Shift 2

From the options given below, identify the steps that are involved in the process of ensuring that actual activities conform to planned activities:

(A) Setting performance standards and measurement of actual performance

(B) Comparison of actual performance with standards

(D) Analysis of deviations

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2022: 16 July Shift 2

Arrange the following in the correct sequence with respect to controlling process.

A. Analyzing deviation

B. Taking corrective action

C. Setting standards

D. Comparing actual performance with standards

E. Measurement of actual performance

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2026: 11 May Shift 1

Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Steps of Controlling process)	LIST-II (Explanation)
A. Measurement of Actual performance	I. Performance should be measured in an objective and reliable manner.
B. Comparison of Actual performance with standards	II. Standards are the criteria against which actual performance would be measured.
C. Setting Performance Standards	III. Deviations in key areas of business need to be attended more urgently as compared to deviations in certain insignificant areas.
D. Analyzing Deviations	IV. Comparison will reveal the deviation between actual and desired results.

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2022: 16 July Shift 2

Which of the following statements are true about controlling?

A. Controlling is forward looking function

B. Controlling improves future planning

C. Controlling is a pre-requisite for planning

D. Controlling is prescriptive

E. Controlling is required only at lower level

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Identify the function of management that brings back the management cycle back to the planning function.

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