Match Each Item with Its Definition

question 56

Multiple Choice

Match each item with its definition.
-Vertical analysis

• A)Useful for comparing one company to another or a company with industry averages
• B)Focuses on a company’s ability to generate net income
• C)The percentage analysis of the relationship of each component in a financial statement to a total within the statement.
• D)An analysis of a company’s ability to pay its current liabilities.
• E)Occurs when a company abandons a segment.
• F)A percentage analysis of increases and decreases in related items in comparative financial statements.
• G)Something that is both unusual and infrequent.
• H)This requires a restatement of prior period financial statements.

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Definitions:

Mean

A measure of central tendency, calculated as the sum of all values in a dataset divided by the number of values.

Geometric Mean

The average of a set of numbers or quantities, computed by taking the nth root of the product of the numbers.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, a measure of central tendency.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.