The Accounting of Sales and Costs of Many New Technology

question 96

Multiple Choice

The accounting of sales and costs of many new technology products has resulted in many ethical and legal controversies. Often, the use life of the new product is difficult to assess and therefore how to allocate sales and costs are debatable. A court decision provides guidelines to address these issues. The court decision is an example of:

• A)UCC codification.
• B)administrative law.
• C)common law.
• D)statutory law.
• E)all of the above

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Definitions:

Main Effect

The immediate effect that an independent variable has on a dependent variable within an experimental framework.

Simple Effect

Analysis within ANOVA that looks at the effect of one factor at a specific level of another factor, useful in interactions.

Interaction Effect

A phenomenon in which the effect of one independent variable on a dependent variable changes depending on the level of another independent variable.

Main Effect

In an experimental setup, the direct impact that an independent variable exerts on a dependent variable.