Smith Technical Services Is Working on a Six- Month Job

question 38

Multiple Choice

Smith Technical Services is working on a six- month job for a client, starting 1 February. They will collect $48 000 from their customer when the job is finished. On 1 March, their Accounts receivable account has a debit balance of $8 000. At the end of March, after monthly adjusting entries have been made, what will the balance in Accounts receivable be?

• A)Credit balance of $8 000
• B)Debit balance of $12 000
• C)Debit balance of $16 000
• D)Debit balance of $48 000

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Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values in a population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or entities considered in a statistical sample.

Standard Error

A measure of the statistical accuracy of an estimate, calculated from the standard deviation of a series of estimates.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population.