The Process of Aggregating Individual Sets of Financial Statements to Produce

question 7

Multiple Choice

The process of aggregating individual sets of financial statements to produce consolidated financial statements requires:

• A)that no adjustments be entered into the individual ledger accounts of entities in the group
• B)balance sheet date adjusting journal entries to be recorded in the ledger accounts of the subsidiaries
• C)accruals of expenses and revenue,directly into the retained earnings ledger account of the parent entity
• D)balance sheet date adjusting entries directly into the ledger accounts of the parent entity only.

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Definitions:

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Increased Value

The appreciation or rise in the worth of an asset or investment over a period of time.

Variance

A measure of the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how much the numbers differ from the mean.

Arithmetic Average

A statistical measure of central tendency calculated by summing a set of values and dividing by the number of values in the set.