Chapter 1: Corporate and Legal Affairs [Strategy]

This chapter explains basic knowledge on corporate activities, business management, compliance with laws and
the concept of rules on a corporation.

Scope of Questions

 Corporate activities
o Ask about the fundamental concepts about corporate activities and business management.
o Ask about the techniques for analyzing familiar business tasks and resolving issues, the concept
of PDCA, and operational planning using techniques such as Pareto charts.
o Ask about the visual expressions used for understanding business tasks such as workflow.
o Ask about the fundamental concepts of accounting and financial affairs, such as financial
statements and break-even points.
 Legal affairs
o Ask about the familiar laws of workplaces, such as intellectual property rights (copyright law,
industrial property rights related laws, etc.) security related laws (act on the prohibition of
unauthorized computer access, etc.), Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Labor
Standards Act, and Act for Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Undertakings
and Improved Working Conditions for Dispatched Workers.
o Ask about the concepts and characteristics of software license, such as license types and license
management.
o Ask about the concepts of corporate rules and regulations, such as compliance and corporate
governance.
o Ask about the significance of standardization.

1-1: Corporate Activities

1-1-1: Management and organization

1: Corporate activities (1. Business philosophy 2. CSR)

2: Organization structure of a corporation (Functional organization, Hierarchical organization,

Matrix organization, Project organization, Divisional system organization, In-house company system)

3: Management resources (People, Things, Money, Information)

4: Business management (PDCA, BCP, BCM)

5: Human resource management (Training systems [OJT, Off JT], Personal development
[Coaching, Mentoring], Personnel systems [CDP, MBO])

6: Production management (JIT, FMS, MRP)

7: Inventory control (Economic ordering quantity [Ordering cost, Inventory maintenance cost,
Inventory total cost], Ordering method [Fixed quantity ordering method, Periodic ordering method]

8: Asset management (Inventory evaluation, Depreciation)

 9: Credit control (Transaction acceptance/rejection, size of transaction)

1-1-2: OR (Operations Research) and IE (Industrial Engineering)

1: Understanding business operations (Workflow)

2: Analysis of business operations and operational planning (Pareto chart, ABC analysis, Arrow
diagram, Scatter diagram, Radar chart, Bubble chart, Control chart, Histogram, Regression analysis, Z graph, Gnatt
chart)

3: Decision Making (Cause and effect diagram, Simulation)

4: Problem-solving techniques (Brainstorming, Decision tree, Affinity diagram)

1-1-3: Accounting and Financial Affairs

1: Types of accounting (Financial accounting, Management accounting)

2: Sales and profits (Cost, Profit, Profit ration)

3: Types and roles of financial statements (Balance sheet [Assets, Liability], Income statement,
Cash flow statement, Closing account)

4: Profit indicator (ROA, ROE, ROI)

1-2: Legal Affairs

1-2-1: Intellectual Property Rights

1: Copyright [Moral rights of authors, Economic rights of authors, Intellectual property rights of
web pages]

2: Laws on industrial property rights [Patent right, Utility model right, Design right, Trademark
right]

3: Unfair Competition Prevention Act

4: Software license [Software and copyright, Prohibition of copying software, Volume license
agreement]

5: Other rights [Privacy right, Portrait right, Publicity right])

1-2-2: Laws on Security

1: Act on the Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access

2: Basic Act on Cybersecurity (Background of Basic Act on Cybersecurity, Basic measures)

1-2-3: Laws on Labor

1: Labor Standards Act (Background, Purpose, Scope)

2: Labor management agreement

3: Validity of labor management agreement

4: Contract for work

 5: Time and material contract

6: Employment agreement

7: Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)

1-2-4: Laws on Transaction

1: Subcontract Act

2: PL Act (Product Liability Act)

3: Specified Commercial Transactions Law

1-2-5: Other Laws and Guidelines

1: Act on the Protection of Personal Information

2: Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mall

3: Act on the Limitation of Liability for Damages of Specified Telecommunications Service

Providers and the Right to Demand Disclosure of Identification Information of the Senders

4: Whistleblower Protection Act

5: Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs

6: Guidelines for information security [Standards for measures against computer viruses,
Standards for measures against unauthorized access to computers, Information security
management standards, Information security audit standards]

1-2-6: Code of Ethics (Compliance, Corporate governance, Information ethics)

1-2-7: Standardization

1: Standardization

2: Standardization organizations (ISO, IEC, IEEE, W3C)

3: International standards (ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO/IEC 27000)

4: Examples of standardization in IT (JAN code, QR code)