Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Most financial analysts and sophisticated investors consider operating leases (which must be listed in the footnotes of the financial statements)to be additional sources of leverage.
• B)By carefully avoiding the four criteria that define an operating lease for accounting purposes,a firm can avoid listing the long-term lease as a liability.
• C)Because a lease is equivalent to a loan,the firm can increase its actual leverage without increasing the debt-to-equity ratio on its balance sheet.
• D)For most large corporations,the amount of leverage the firm can obtain through a lease is unlikely to exceed the amount of leverage the firm can obtain through a loan.

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Definitions:

Binomial Populations

Populations for which the outcomes can be classified into two categories (success/failure) and the number of successes in a set number of trials can be predicted.

SRS

Stands for Simple Random Sample, a sampling method where each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is believed, with a certain level of confidence, to contain the true value of the population parameter.

Population Proportions

The fraction or percentage of items in a particular category within the entire population.