Consider the Following Independent Situations as You Answer the Next

question 12

Multiple Choice

Consider the following independent situations as you answer the next seven questions:
A.Irene, a freshman accounting major, thought she would benefit from reading an intermediate accounting text while taking introductory financial accounting.
B.Bradley developed a plan to study for all four parts of the CPA exam during his last semester at college, thus making himself ready to take the exam immediately after graduation.
C. Jorge met weekly with a group of five students, all of whom were preparing their resume for the very first time.
D. Maria planned to use the same strategies in advanced accounting courses that she had used in introductory accounting courses.Jorge and his group would benefit from which of the following countermeasures for information overload?

• A)Focus on creating value-added information.
• B)Compress, aggregate, categorize and structure information.
• C)Both A and B.
• D)Neither A nor B.

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