Business and Commerce

Enhance your knowledge of Business and Commerce with a wide range of MCQs with answers and detailed explanations. Topics include business management, commerce, trade, economics, marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior. These multiple-choice questions are designed for students, teachers, and candidates preparing for competitive exams (CSS, PMS, NTS, FPSC, PPSC, UPSC, MBA entry tests, etc.). Each MCQ is followed by a clear explanation to help you understand concepts deeply, improve analytical skills, and achieve success in exams. Ideal for practice, self-study, and revision in the field of Business and Commerce.

141. Overall and strategic planning is done by the ___________.

Top management
Middle level management
Supervisory level management
All of the above
✅ The correct answer is A.
Overall and strategic planning is done by the Top management. Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, establish agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment.

142. A Piece Rate System written by ___________.

Harold Koontz
Taylor
Louis Allan
Hendry Fayol
✅ The correct answer is B.
Taylor was one of the main champions of the piece rate system in the late 19th century. Taylor’s Differential Piece-Rate System was introduced by F.W. Taylor, who believed that the workers should be paid on the basis of their degree of efficiencies.

143. A Bull speculator is also called as ___________.

mandiwala
tejiwala
tarawaniwalas
vaniwalas
✅ The correct answer is B.
A Bull speculator is also called as tejiwala. He is said to be a bull because just like a bull which tries to throw its victim up in the air, he expects to profit from increase in share prices.

144. The preference shares holders who have no claim for the arrears of dividend are _________ preference shares.

Cumulative
Non-cumulative
Redeemable
Irredeemable
✅ The correct answer is B.
The preference shares holders who have no claim for the arrears of dividend are Non-cumulative preference shares. Non-cumulative preference shares are those type of preference shares, which have right to get fixed rate of dividend out of the profits of current year only. They do not carry the right to receive arrears of dividend.

146. Franking machine is used in __________.

bank
post office
school
colleges
✅ The correct answer is A.
Franking machine is used in bank. The franking machine calculates the correct postage automatically, which includes the Royal Mail discounted cost for franking machine users.

148. A capital intensive enterprise requires __________.

more employees
less employees
male employees
female employees
✅ The correct answer is B.
A capital intensive enterprise requires less employees. Capital intensive refers to business processes or industries that require large amounts of investment to produce a good or service, and therefore have a high percentage of fixed assets (property, plant, and equipment (PP&E)).

150. Registration of partnership is ________.

optional under Indian partnership act
compulsory under the Indian partnership act
compulsory under the income tax act
compulsory under Indian contract act
✅ The correct answer is A.
Registration of partnership is optional under Indian partnership act. Registration of partnership firm may be done at any time – before starting a business or anytime during the continuation of partnership.
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