Which One of the Following Statements Is Not Correct

question 4

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

• A) The objective of general purpose financial reporting is to provide financial information about the reporting entity that is useful to existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors in making decisions relating to providing resources to the entity.
• B) While financial accounting presents information about what has happened in the past, management accounting is very much concerned with both the present and the future and how accounting information can be used for short-term decision making and longer-term planning.
• C) Understandability assumes that readers of financial reports have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic events in order to make sense of what they are presented with.
• D) Accounting summarises narrative data relating to past events and presents this data as information to managers and other interested parties as a basis for both decision making and control purposes.

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Definitions:

Cum Dividend

A term indicating that a stock is trading with the right to receive the most recently declared dividend.

Shareholders of Record

Shareholders of record are individuals or entities that are officially recorded by a company as the legal owners of its shares on a specific date.

September

The ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

Positive Net Present Value

An indicator that an investment is expected to generate more cash than the initial amount invested, viewed positively in capital budgeting.