Compensating Balances Are a Restriction on the Use of a Company's

question 162

Multiple Choice

Compensating balances are a restriction on the use of a company's cash and should be

• A) reported as a current asset.
• B) reported as a noncurrent asset.
• C) disclosed in the financial statements.
• D) reported as a reduction of cash.

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion or spread in a set of data points, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Variance

A measure of variability that denotes the average of the squared differences from the mean, showing how widely the values in a data set are spread.

Squared Deviations

Values obtained by subtracting the mean from each data point in a set, squaring the result to eliminate negative numbers, used in variance calculation.

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