Consolidated Net Income May Include the Parent's Separate Operating Income

question 9

Multiple Choice

Consolidated net income may include the parent's separate operating income plus the parent's share of the subsidiary's reported net income:

• A)plus the unrealized profit on upstream intercompany sales of inventory made during the current year.
• B)plus the profit realized this year from upstream intercompany sales of inventory made last year.
• C)plus unrealized profit on downstream intercompany sales of inventory made during the current year.
• D)minus the parent's share of profit realized this year from upstream intercompany sales of inventory made last year.

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Definitions:

Causal Models

Analytical models used to study the cause-effect relationships between variables within a system.

Forecasting

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Error Term

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Simple Regression

a technique that estimates the relationship between a dependent variable and a single independent variable using a straight line.