A Company Should Report a Cumulative Effect of an Accounting

question 7

Multiple Choice

A company should report a cumulative effect of an accounting principle change when

• A)consistency has been violated.
• B)errors are made and subsequently corrected.
• C)FASB mandates a change from one method to another.
• D)international reporting standards differ from GAAP methods.

Comprehend the combined use of measures of central tendency and variability in describing data.

Differentiate between exclusive and inclusive ranges and their applications.

Understand why deviations from the mean are squared in standard deviation calculation.

Identify the methodology for computing standard deviation and its variance.

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Definitions:

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