Which of the Following Statements About the Statements on Standards

question 83

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the Statements on Standards for Tax Services is true?

• A)A CPA is never allowed to use a taxpayer's estimates when preparing a tax return.
• B)The CPA must tell the IRS upon becoming aware that an error has been made on a past tax return.
• C)The CPA may in good faith rely on information provided by the taxpayer, without verifying the reliability of that information if reasonable inquiries are made where the information furnished appears to be incorrect.
• D)The CPA should not recommend that a taxpayer take a certain position if there is any doubt as to whether the position would be approved by the IRS upon audit.

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Definitions:

Standard Score

A score that has been transformed to fit a normal distribution, usually with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.

National Mean

The average score or value derived from a specific set of data collected across a nation.

Standard Deviation

The statistical metric that calculates the dispersion or spread of data points in a dataset around the average value.

Raw Score

An untreated score before manipulation or processing to make it a standard score, as must be done for all norm-referenced tests. Raw scores alone tell us little, if anything, about how a person has done on a test. We must take an individual’s raw score and do something to it to give it meaning.