The Basis of Accounting Selected by or Imposed on a Government

question 19

Multiple Choice

The basis of accounting selected by or imposed on a government can influence which of the following?

• A)A decision to contract-out a specific service rather than provide that service itself.
• B)The amount of salary increases proposed by union negotiators.
• C)The amount that is available to spend on a donor-specified project or service.
• D)All of the above.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistic that denotes the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Margin of Error

A statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating how much you can expect the survey results to reflect the views of the overall population.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that a particular event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

Standard Error

Indicates the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly the mean.