Discuss Some of the Proven Methods of Avoiding Bankruptcy

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Essay

Discuss some of the proven methods of avoiding bankruptcy.

Describe the process and accounting treatment for change funds and their differences from petty cash.

Understand how to establish and adjust a petty cash fund.

Learn how to reconcile the petty cash fund by accounting for cash shortages and overages.

Ability to prepare journal entries for petty cash transactions including fund establishment, replenishment, and adjustment.

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Definitions:

Population Variance

A measure of the spread of a population’s values, indicating how much the individuals within the population differ from the population mean.

Chi-Squared Distributed

Referring to a statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of the sum of squares of a set of variables, often used in hypothesis testing.

T-Distribution

A statistical distribution that occurs when calculating the average of a population with a normal distribution, under conditions where the sample size is small and the population's variance is not known.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in a statistical calculation.