Which One of the Following Errors Would Cause a Company's

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Multiple Choice

Which one of the following errors would cause a company's unadjusted trial balance to be out of balance?

• A)Overstating an asset balance by $100 and a revenue balance by the same amount.
• B)Failure to post the debit portion of a journal entry to the proper account (recorded, for example, in a revenue rather than an expense account).
• C)Recording a $5,000 revenue transaction by crediting the accounts receivable account and debiting the revenue account.
• D)Recording $1,000 cash collected from a customer as a debit to the cash account and a debit to the accounts receivable account.

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Causal Hypothesis

A statement predicting a cause-and-effect relationship between two or more variables.

Dependent Variable

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