How Are the Accounting Tasks Once Performed by Bookkeepers Now

question 84

Multiple Choice

How are the accounting tasks once performed by bookkeepers now significantly different?

• A)Societal changes affect what shareholders and other stakeholders want from a firm. Bookkeepers used to advise government on tax changes.
• B)Escalating fraud has resulted from bookkeepers' unethical acts. Bookkeepers' responsibility for estimating the time spent on doing taxes is now done by formula.
• C)Computers now perform routine tasks that were formerly performed by bookkeepers.
• D)Government requirements of more detailed recording of corporate write-offs have substantially changed recording requirements.

Distinguish between the labor supply curves facing a purely competitive employer and a monopsonist.

Recognize how firms determine the level of employment and wage rates in competitive vs. monopsonistic markets.

Analyze the impact of marginal product and marginal wage cost on employment decisions.

Identify the conditions under which firms operate in purely competitive or imperfectly competitive product and labor markets.

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