When a Firm Is Purchasing Inventory, and Pays Early to Take

question 48

True/False

When a firm is purchasing inventory, and pays early to take advantage of the purchase discount offered by the vendor, that amount is debited to the Inventory account.

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Definitions:

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Dictator Game

A mutually anonymous behavioral economics game in which one person (“the dictator”) unilaterally determines how to split an amount of money with the second player.

Ultimatum Game

A behavioral economics game in which a mutually anonymous pair of players interact to determine how an amount of money is to be split. The first player suggests a division. The second player either accepts that proposal (in which case the split is made accordingly) or rejects it (in which case neither player gets anything).

Neoclassical Economics

A method in economics that concentrates on how supply and demand determine the distribution of goods, outputs, and incomes within various markets.