With Respect to the Prepaid Income from Services, Which of the Following

question 5

Multiple Choice

With respect to the prepaid income from services, which of the following is true?

• A)The treatment of prepaid income is the same for tax and financial accounting.
• B)A cash basis taxpayer can spread the income over the period services are to be provided if all of the services will be completed by the end of the tax year following the year of receipt.
• C)An accrual basis taxpayer can spread the income over the period services are to be provided if all of the services will be completed by the end of the tax year following the year of receipt.
• D)An accrual basis taxpayer can spread the income over the period services are to be provided on a contract for three years or less.
• E)None of these.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability around the mean (average) of a set of data points.

Total Risk

The complete range of risks an investment or project may face, encompassing both systematic (market-wide) and unsystematic (company-specific) risks.

SML

The Security Market Line, a graphical representation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model that plots the expected return of the market at varying levels of systematic or market risk.

Beta

A metric that compares the level of risk and volatility of an individual security or portfolio to that of the general market.