An Important Difference Between Accounting and Other Business Functions, Such

question 189

Multiple Choice

An important difference between accounting and other business functions, such as marketing and management, is that

• A) accounting functions must be performed by an outsider, rather than by an employee of the business, in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
• B) accounting offers us insight into whether the business is financially sound.
• C) accounting involves mainly clerical activities and thus requires very little analysis.
• D) accounting deals exclusively with numbers.

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