The Business Entity Assumption

question 258

Multiple Choice

The business entity assumption:

• A)Means that accounting information reflects a presumption that the business will continue operating instead of being closed or sold.
• B)Means that we can express transactions and events in monetary,or money,units.
• C)Presumes that the life of a company can be divided into time periods,such as months and years,and that useful reports can be prepared for those periods.
• D)Means that a business is accounted for separately from other business entities,including its owners.
• E)Prescribes that a company record the expenses it incurred to generate the revenue reported.

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Definitions:

Propositional Representation

A method of representing information by expressing it as propositions or statements that relate concepts.

Visual

Related to seeing or sight, involving the use of vision.

Pictorial

Pertaining to or expressed in pictures; visual.

Verbal

relating to or involving words and the use of language to communicate.