An Intentional Understatement of Expected Revenues or Overstatement of Expected

question 46

Multiple Choice

An intentional understatement of expected revenues or overstatement of expected expenses by managers in order to have a favorable performance evaluation is known as ________.

• A) benchmarking
• B) appropriation
• C) budgetary slack
• D) variance analysis

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