Cindy Smith, VP of Finance at Digital Components, Inc

question 14

Multiple Choice

Cindy Smith, VP of Finance at Digital Components, Inc.(DCI) , theorizes that the discount level offered to credit customers affects the average collection period on credit sales.Accordingly, she has designed an experiment to test her theory using four sales discount rates (0%, 2%, 4%, and 6%) .First, she classified DCI's credit customers into three categories by total assets (small, medium, and large) .Then, she randomly assigned four customers from each category to a sales discount rate.In Cindy's experiment "average collection period" is ___.

• A)a concomitant variable
• B)the dependent variable
• C)a treatment variable
• D)a blocking variable
• E)a constant

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Definitions:

Dividend Income

Income received from owning shares in a corporation, usually in the form of cash payments made to investors out of the company's profits.

Shares

Equity stakes in a corporation, representing a portion of the ownership, which entitle the holder to a share of the company's profits and assets.

Capital Gains Yield

The rise in price of an investment or asset, represented as a percentage of the investment’s initial cost.

Dividends

Dividends are portions of a company's earnings decided by the board of directors to be distributed among shareholders, usually in the form of cash payments or shares.