When Actual Performance Varies from the Budgeted Performance,managers Will Be

question 9

Multiple Choice

When actual performance varies from the budgeted performance,managers will be more likely to revise future budgets if the variances were

• A)controllable rather than uncontrollable.
• B)uncontrollable rather than controllable.
• C)favorable rather than unfavorable.
• D)small.

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Definitions:

Nominal

A scale of measurement used to label variables without a quantitative value, categorizing data without a natural order or ranking.

Research Hypotheses

Statements made by researchers that predict a relationship between variables, to be tested by scientific research.

Samples and Populations

Concepts in statistics where a sample represents a subset of a larger group (population) from which it is drawn and is used to infer properties about the population.

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment or study that is expected to change in response to manipulations of the independent variable, representing the effect or outcome.