Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)

Finance Quiz

Do You Know the Basics?

This 10-question quiz isn’t designed to measure your entire financial IQ, but it will give you a sense of the fundamentals you should learn to become a more effective manager. When you finish reading the guide, you’ll have a chance to retake the quiz and compare your scores. If you don’t know an answer, just mark it “don’t know” rather than guessing. That will give you a clearer indication of your progress later.

The questions here were developed with the help of the Business Literacy Institute, in Los Angeles. A more comprehensive financial IQ test is available for purchase at www.business-literacy.com.

1. The income statement measures:

a. Profitability

b. Assets and liabilities

c. Cash

d. All of the above ...