Which of the Following Statements Is CORRECT

question 128

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

• A) The cash budget and the capital budget are developed separately, and although they are both important to the firm, one does not affect the other.
• B) Since depreciation is a non-cash charge, it neither appears on nor has any effect on the cash budget.
• C) The target cash balance should be set such that it need not be adjusted for seasonal patterns and unanticipated fluctuations in receipts, although it should be changed to reflect long-term changes in the firm's operations.
• D) The typical cash budget reflects interest paid on loans as well as income from the investment of surplus cash.These numbers, as well as other items on the cash budget, are expected values; hence, actual results might vary from the budgeted amounts.
• E) Shorter-term cash budgets, in general, are used primarily for planning purposes, while longer-term budgets are used for actual cash control.

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Definitions:

Z-scores

A numerical metric indicating how a specific value relates to a group's average, measured by the number of standard deviations it differs from this mean.

Standard Normal Distribution

A statistical distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in hypothesis testing and other statistical analyses.

Z-scores

A measure that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, expressed in units of standard deviation.