To Ensure Accuracy and Consistency in the Way Financial Information

question 131

Multiple Choice

To ensure accuracy and consistency in the way financial information is reported, accountants have historically followed which of the following rules?

• A) generally accepted accounting principles
• B) comparable accounting standards
• C) accounting rules and principles
• D) principled accounting procedures

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