A Company Has Calculated Its Running Sum of Forecast Errors

question 75

Short Answer

A company has calculated its running sum of forecast errors to be 400, and its mean absolute deviation is exactly 25.What is the company's tracking signal? _________________________________

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Definitions:

Equity Method

An accounting technique used to record investments in other companies, recognizing income proportional to ownership.

Consolidation

The process of combining the financial statements of separate but related entities into a single set of financial statements for the group.

Consolidated Net Income

The total net income of a parent company and its subsidiaries, after adjusting for intercompany transactions, reported as a single figure.

Equity Method

An accounting technique used when a company has significant influence over another company it invests in, typically reflected by owning 20% to 50% of the voting stock, where the investment is initially recorded at cost and adjusted thereafter for the post-acquisition change in the investor’s share of the investee’s net assets.