Which of the Following Items Would Not Appear in the Financial

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which of the following items would not appear in the financial account of the balance of payments?

• A) foreign direct investment in Australia
• B) portfolio investment
• C) income earned from property owned overseas
• D) the purchase of Australian assets by non- Australian residents

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Definitions:

Falsified

Intentionally altered or manipulated information, data, or documents with the intent to deceive or mislead.

Clever Hans

A famous case study in early 20th century psychology of a horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.

Arithmetic

A branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and manipulation of numbers, including operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Selective Attrition

The process where certain kinds of participants drop out of a study over time, potentially skewing the results.