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A division's cost base of €6.0bn is reduced by 20% in one year and then increases by 10% the following year. What is the cost base at the end of the second year?
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Correct answer: B - €5.28bn
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A division's cost base of €6.0bn is reduced by 20% in one year and then increases by 10% the following year. What is the cost base at the end of the second year?
Correct answer: B - €5.28bn
A bank's cost/income ratio improved from 72% to 66% over two years. Which statement correctly describes the change?
Correct answer: C - It fell by 6 percentage points, a relative fall of approximately 8.3%
Three regional teams report average deal sizes of €40m across 8 deals, €60m across 12 deals and €90m across 20 deals. What is the average deal size across all 40 deals?
Correct answer: B - €71.0m
A treasury team converts €500,000 into US dollars at a rate of 1.0900, and three weeks later converts the full dollar amount back into euros at a rate of 1.1200. Ignoring fees, what is the approximate euro result?
Correct answer: C - Approximately €486,600 - a loss of about €13,400
Deutsche Bank reported a record profit before tax of €9.7bn for the 2025 financial year, an increase of 84% on the prior year. What was profit before tax in 2024, to the nearest €0.1bn?
Correct answer: B - €5.3bn
Three operators act on a list of numbers. Operator R reverses the order of the list. Operator S removes the final value in the list. Operator D doubles every value. The list [2, 5, 7, 9] is passed through R, then S, then D. What is the output?
Correct answer: D - [18, 14, 10]
All analysts who joined the 2026 cohort completed the compliance induction. Marek completed the compliance induction. Which conclusion follows necessarily?
Correct answer: C - No conclusion about Marek's cohort membership follows
Passage: 'The bank's new settlement platform was deployed across European operations in March. Management reported that the platform may reduce average settlement times once fully embedded.' Statement: 'The new platform reduced average settlement times in European operations.' On the basis of the passage alone, which assessment is correct?
Correct answer: D - Cannot say - the passage describes a possible effect, not a realised one
You discover that a summary figure in a report you sent to a client yesterday is incorrect. The error does not change the report's overall conclusion. Which action is MOST effective?
Correct answer: D - Tell your manager immediately and propose issuing a corrected report
Two managers each ask you to complete a task by 5pm the same day. Mid-afternoon, a client emails an urgent complaint about a report you produced. You cannot complete all three. What is the MOST effective first action?
Correct answer: C - Flag the conflict to both managers now and ask them to agree the priority
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