An Accounting Information System Should Be Designed to Provide Information

question 44

Multiple Choice

An accounting information system should be designed to provide information that is useful. To be useful the information must be:

• A) qualitative rather than quantitative.
• B) unique and unavailable through other sources.
• C) historical in nature and not purport to predict the future.
• D) marginal between two alternatives.
• E) relevant, accurate, and timely.

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