Critical Reasoning

karthikpandian19 wrote:Federal regulations require that corporations use separate accounting firms for audit and non-audit services. This presents difficulties for many multi-national companies because there are only four large international accounting firms based in the United States. An outspoken group of CEOs has suggested breaking up the "Big Four" firms into smaller operations, so that corporations will have more options for their accounting needs.

Which of the following is most like the CEOs' plan in logical structure?

The owners of a prosperous, family-run bakery with several food preparation facilities decide to sell various buildings to local restaurants and coffee shops so that they can retire.
A federal court rules that a communications conglomerate is in violation of anti-trust laws and must break into smaller companies to enable competition from local businesses.
A school district superintendent writes a letter to the publisher or his district's textbooks complaining about lack of variety and suggesting that the publisher add new divisions with different emphases to their corporate structure.
A subsidiary of a large textile manufacturer is bought out in a hostile takeover, and its operations are changed.
The board of a hospital decides to retain only a small number of staff physicians and to rent out remaining space to specialists in private practice.

Ashujain wrote:

karthikpandian19 wrote:Federal regulations require that corporations use separate accounting firms for audit and non-audit services. This presents difficulties for many multi-national companies because there are only four large international accounting firms based in the United States. An outspoken group of CEOs has suggested breaking up the "Big Four" firms into smaller operations, so that corporations will have more options for their accounting needs.

Which of the following is most like the CEOs' plan in logical structure?

The owners of a prosperous, family-run bakery with several food preparation facilities decide to sell various buildings to local restaurants and coffee shops so that they can retire.
A federal court rules that a communications conglomerate is in violation of anti-trust laws and must break into smaller companies to enable competition from local businesses.
A school district superintendent writes a letter to the publisher or his district's textbooks complaining about lack of variety and suggesting that the publisher add new divisions with different emphases to their corporate structure.
A subsidiary of a large textile manufacturer is bought out in a hostile takeover, and its operations are changed.
The board of a hospital decides to retain only a small number of staff physicians and to rent out remaining space to specialists in private practice.

A: not relevant. It talks something about 'retirement' which is not mentioned anywhere in the passage
B: not relevant. It talks something about 'competition from local businesses" which is not mentioned anywhere in the passage
C: not relevant. It talks something about 'add new divisions' which is not mentioned anywhere in the passage
D: not relevant. It talks something about 'hostile takeover' which is not mentioned anywhere in the passage
E: Most relevant. It talks about division of hospital into smaller parts.

IMO: E

karthikpandian19 wrote:Federal regulations require that corporations use separate accounting firms for audit and non-audit services. This presents difficulties for many multi-national companies because there are only four large international accounting firms based in the United States. An outspoken group of CEOs has suggested breaking up the "Big Four" firms into smaller operations, so that corporations will have more options for their accounting needs.

Which of the following is most like the CEOs' plan in logical structure?

The owners of a prosperous, family-run bakery with several food preparation facilities decide to sell various buildings to local restaurants and coffee shops so that they can retire.
A federal court rules that a communications conglomerate is in violation of anti-trust laws and must break into smaller companies to enable competition from local businesses.
A school district superintendent writes a letter to the publisher or his district's textbooks complaining about lack of variety and suggesting that the publisher add new divisions with different emphases to their corporate structure.
A subsidiary of a large textile manufacturer is bought out in a hostile takeover, and its operations are changed.
The board of a hospital decides to retain only a small number of staff physicians and to rent out remaining space to specialists in private practice.

jimmyjimmy wrote:

karthikpandian19 wrote:Federal regulations require that corporations use separate accounting firms for audit and non-audit services. This presents difficulties for many multi-national companies because there are only four large international accounting firms based in the United States. An outspoken group of CEOs has suggested breaking up the "Big Four" firms into smaller operations, so that corporations will have more options for their accounting needs.

Which of the following is most like the CEOs' plan in logical structure?

The owners of a prosperous, family-run bakery with several food preparation facilities decide to sell various buildings to local restaurants and coffee shops so that they can retire.
- Owner has authority
A federal court rules that a communications conglomerate is in violation of anti-trust laws and must break into smaller companies to enable competition from local businesses.
-Federal court has authority
A school district superintendent writes a letter to the publisher or his district's textbooks complaining about lack of variety and suggesting that the publisher add new divisions with different emphases to their corporate structure.
- Superintendent has no authority, and only suggesting
A subsidiary of a large textile manufacturer is bought out in a hostile takeover, and its operations are changed.
Mfg has authority
The board of a hospital decides to retain only a small number of staff physicians and to rent out remaining space to specialists in private practice.
- Hospital board has authority

i guessed right, but took 5 minutes..

the thinking here is Main Party (MNC's) is using something (audit firms) , something needs to be changed so that Main Party will have more options.(last line of the above passage is important and federal regulation stuff not important)


A- options are increased but main party (family run bakery) wont get more options
B- competition from local business
C- main party (students) will get more options when school superintendent asks publisher to add new divisions..
D- its operations are changed
e- main hospital wont get more options by renting place to private practioners..

HIH!!