Qtopia Company Uses the Direct Method to Prepare Its Statement

question 149

True/False

Qtopia Company uses the direct method to prepare its statement of cash flows. It has reported Operating Expenses of $63,000 on its income statement for the year 2014. If the balance in Accrued Liabilities has gone up by $6,000 during the year, then $6,000 will have to be added to $63,000 as part of the process to calculate payments to suppliers for operating expenses.

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Definitions:

Externality

A term in economics that describes a cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

Internality-Externality

A psychological dimension that distinguishes between individuals who attribute outcomes to their own control (internality) and those who attribute them to external forces (externality).

Locus of Control

Locus of control is a psychological concept that refers to individuals' belief about the extent to which the outcomes of their actions are under their own control (internal locus) or influenced by external factors (external locus).

Reinforcement Contingency

Reinforcement contingency is a term in behavioral psychology that refers to the relationship between a behavior and its consequence, emphasizing that a behavior must be followed by a reinforcement for the behavior to be increased.