Compensation Professionals in the XYZ Company Use Regression Analysis to Determine

question 27

Multiple Choice

Compensation professionals in the XYZ Company use regression analysis to determine the pay rates of its marketing professionals.There are 4 different marketing job titles in the XYZ Company.Compensation professionals use job evaluation points assigned to each marketing job title and a salary survey data.In other words,they regress job evaluation points on the salary data to indicate the amount of variation in market pay rates that can be explained by a company's job structure.Which of the following best describes this amount of variation when the R2 value turns out to be 0.85?

• A)All of the variation in market pay
• B)None of the variation in market pay
• C)A large amount of the variation in market pay
• D)A small amount of the variation in market pay

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Definitions:

Cost of Goods Sold

Direct costs attributable to the production of the goods sold by a company, including materials and labor costs.

Merchandise Inventory

Goods that a retail or wholesale company intends to sell to customers. The inventory account is adjusted based on purchases and sales.

Purchases Returns

Goods returned to the supplier from the buyer due to defects, inaccuracies in orders, or other reasons.

Sales Returns

Transactions where customers return previously purchased merchandise to the seller, resulting in a deduction from gross sales to arrive at net sales.