A Toy Store with a Calendar Year-End Is Likely to Have

question 68

Multiple Choice

A toy store with a calendar year-end is likely to have:

• A)unpredictable fluctuations in cash flow from quarter to quarter.
• B)the largest cash inflow from operations in the second and third quarters (April - September).
• C)a fairly stable cash flow across all four quarters.
• D)the largest cash inflow from operations in the fourth and first quarters (October - March).

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Definitions:

Evaporation

The process by which water turns from a liquid into a vapor, often under the influence of heat.

Cohesion

Property of a substance (such as water) that arises from the tendency of its molecules to resist separating from one another.

Osmosis

Diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane; occurs in response to a difference in solute concentration between the fluids on either side of the membrane.

Sieve Elements

Living cells that compose sugar-conducting sieve tubes of phloem. Each sieve tube consists of a stack of sieve elements that meet end to end at sieve plates.