A Company's Accounting Clerk Realizes That an Error Has Been

question 69

Multiple Choice

A company's accounting clerk realizes that an error has been made-the period's income is overstated. The clerk will soon be leaving for another job and knows that the error will not be found for several months after she has gone. To avoid having to work longer to fix the error,she decides she won't say anything. Which of the following factors affected the intensity of the clerk's decision?

• A)resource consequences  
• B)magnitude of influence  
• C)temporal immediacy  
• D)probability of response

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Definitions:

SST

Abbreviation for "Total Sum of Squares," which measures the total variance in a dataset.

SSE

Total of the squared differences between the actual data and the estimated values from a model, illustrating model accuracy.

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistical measure represented as R², which indicates the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).

Least Squares Regression Line

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