TABLE 12-4 The Managers of a Brokerage Firm Are Interested in Finding

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Short Answer

TABLE 12-4
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new clients a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new clients they have enrolled in the last year and their sales amounts in thousands of dollars. These data are presented in the table that follows.

-Referring to Table 12-4, the managers of the brokerage firm wanted to test the hypothesis that the number of new clients brought in did not affect the amount of sales generated. The value of the test statistic is ________.

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Definitions:

General Ledger

A comprehensive accounting record of all transactions of a business, summarizing all accounts and transactions in one place.

General Ledger Accounts

These are the main accounts where all the business transactions of a company are recorded, serving as a permanent record organized by account.

Trial Balance

A financial worksheet that gathers the balances from all accounts into debit and credit columns, verifying the mathematical accuracy of a company's accounting system.

Recording Process

The method of capturing and documenting financial transactions in the accounting records.