Horizontal Analysis Can Be Used in Fraud Detection by ________

question 18

Multiple Choice

Horizontal analysis can be used in fraud detection by ________.

• A)checking the trend in earnings from year to year of persons suspected of fraud
• B)looking for significant changes in financial statement amounts and ratios across several fiscal periods
• C)looking for odd relations of one account to a base such as sales
• D)looking for the change in net worth of a suspect from the beginning to the end of a period

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Definitions:

Asynchronous Interaction

Communication where responses do not occur in real-time, allowing participants to engage according to their own schedule.

Utilitarian Consumption

involves buying and using products based on their practical functionality and utility, rather than for pleasure or aesthetic reasons.

B2B Commerce

Business-to-business commerce involving transactions between companies rather than between a company and individual consumers.

M2M

Machine-to-Machine communication, referring to direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless.