Consistency in Accounting Means That a Company Uses the Same

question 182

True/False

Consistency in accounting means that a company uses the same accounting principles from one accounting period to the next accounting period.

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Definitions:

Adjustments

Modifications made to accounts, budgets, or economic models to reflect changes in assumptions or economic conditions.

Monopolistic Competition

A reiteration with emphasis on a market setting where firms sell differentiated products, allowing each to have some degree of market power, facing a downward-sloping demand curve.

Short-Run Equilibrium

A state in a market where supply equals demand, but only considering a period in which some factors, like production capacity, remain constant.

Constant-Cost Industry

An industry in which the entry and exit of firms have no effect on the prices firms in the industry must pay for resources and thus no effect on production costs.