Business Studies

Controlling

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The CEO of a firm is involved regularly in personal observation, statistical report making and trying to ensure that current activities conform to planned targets. Which function of management is he performing?

Controlling

Financial Planning

Financing Decision

Managerial Planning

✅ Correct Option: 1

Option 1 -> Controlling involves monitoring performance through observation and reports, and ensuring activities align with planned targets.

Option 2 -> Financial Planning relates to budgeting and forecasting financial resources, not monitoring current activities against targets.

Option 3 -> Financing Decision concerns raising capital and managing capital structure, which is unrelated to performance monitoring.

Option 4 -> Managerial Planning involves setting objectives and determining future courses of action, not comparing current performance with targets.

Hence, Option 1: Controlling -> The CEO is performing the controlling function by observing operations, analyzing statistical reports, and comparing actual performance with planned targets to ensure conformity. These are the core activities of the controlling function in management. -> correct

2025: 24 May Shift 1

Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
(A) Standards	(I) Setting of Reduction of defects from 10 pc to 5 pc per lot
(B) Management by exception	(II) Assigning additional workers and equipment to the project.
(C) Critical Control Point	(III) An attempt to control everything results in controlling nothing.
(D) Corrective Action	(IV) Focusing on KRAs

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

2025: 2 June Shift 2

Which concept of controlling is referred to as 'control by exception'?

2026: 21 May Shift 2

The correct sequence of process of controlling in Samaya doll manufacturing ltd. is:

A. Counting the no. of dolls manufactured

B. Setting a target of manufacturing 50 dolls per day

C. The acceptable range of deviations is 45

D. Comparing of actual performance with standards

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

2026: 24 May Shift 1

"An efficient control system keeps a careful check on the changes taking place in the organization and in the environment and helps to review and revise the standards in light of such changes." Identify the point of importance of controlling highlighted in this statement

2026: 31 May Shift 1

Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Functional areas)	LIST-II (Standards used to gauge performance)
A. Finance and accounting	I. Liquidity
B. Marketing	II. Sales volume
C. Production	III. Labour turnover
D. Human resource management	IV. Cost

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

2026: 11 May Shift 2

Sunlight pvt. ltd. are involved in the production of light bulbs of 10W, 50W and 100W. They usually produce 1000 bulbs every day and the internal quality assurance team finds that five to ten bulbs are always defective, yet they ignore this fact and allow the production team to proceed without any further action. Which concept did they follow in the case?

The CEO of a firm is involved regularly in personal observation, statistical report making and trying to ensure that current activities conform to planned targets. Which function of management is he performing?

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