The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Was Passed in Response to What

question 96

Multiple Choice

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed in response to what event/events?

• A)a series of accounting scandals in the early 2000s
• B)unexpected increases in dividend payments to stockholders at various corporations
• C)volatility in NASDAQ indexes
• D)historically low bond prices

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Definitions:

Cronbach's Alpha

A measure of internal consistency that assesses how closely related a set of items are as a group, often used in survey research.

Internal Consistency

A measure of the reliability of a psychological test that assesses the extent to which different test items that propose to measure the same general construct produce similar results.

Cohen's Kappa

Cohen's Kappa is a statistical measure used to assess the reliability of inter-rater agreement for qualitative (categorical) items, correcting for the chance of agreement.

Item-total Correlation

The relationship between individual item scores and the overall score across all items in a test or questionnaire.