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Professor Willoughby assigns his class a term paper that is to make up 30% of their final grade. The students are given clear guidelines about what is expected in this assignment and are given two months to complete the assignment. Because students know that this paper is important, but not the only thing upon which their grades will be based, this assignment would be likely to cause ________.


Definitions:

Understated

Understated means that a financial amount has been reported or recorded as less than its actual or true value.

Posting

The process of recording financial transactions in the accounting ledger from the journal.

Ledger

A comprehensive collection of a company's financial accounts, providing a record of all financial transactions.

Trial Balance

A report listing all accounts with their respective balances, prepared again to ensure the total debits equal total credits in the accounting records.

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