A Trial Balance Does Not Identify All Types of Errors

question 50

Multiple Choice

A trial balance does not identify all types of errors. Which of the following are errors that are not identified using the trial balance?

• A) incorrectly recording the transaction amount, but the debits still equal the credits
• B) incorrectly posting part of a journal entry to the wrong account
• C) not recording a transaction
• D) All of these answer choices represent errors that are not identified using the trial balance.

Determine the significance of test results using the p-value.

Understand the difference between one-tailed and two-tailed hypothesis tests.

Identify the correct set of hypotheses for various testing scenarios.

Calculate and interpret the critical values in hypothesis testing.

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Definitions:

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