Both Financial and Management Accounting

question 65

Multiple Choice

Both financial and management accounting:

• A) draw on data from the organisation's basic information system.
• B) provide information for external users.
• C) must comply with Australian accounting standards.
• D) rely exclusively on historical data.

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Definitions:

Well-Diversified Portfolio

A collection of investment assets reduced in risk through spreading investments across various securities, sectors, or asset classes.

Single Index Model

A simplification of market models that uses a single factor (usually a market index) to model all securities' returns.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure representing the dispersion or variability of a set of data points, widely used in finance to quantify the risk associated with a particular investment or portfolio.

Single-Index Model

A model used in finance to describe the returns of a stock portfolio based on the returns of a single market index, simplifying the complexities of the market.