Identify Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 61

Multiple Choice

Identify which of the following statements is false.

• A)A corporation's fiscal year generally must end on the last day of the month.
• B)A fiscal year may not end on December 31.
• C)A new corporation can elect a fiscal year that runs from February 16 to February 15 of the following year.
• D)A corporation's first tax year may not cover a full 12-month period.

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A distribution quantifying the chances of a specific amount of occurrences happening within a set period or spatial region.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that a certain event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Sales

The exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something.

Poisson Approximation

A statistical technique used to estimate the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.