The Term ________ Refers to the Enormous Amount of Information

question 25

Multiple Choice

The term ________ refers to the enormous amount of information that firms now have access to but cannot handle using conventional data management and data mining software.

• A)big data
• B)churn
• C)data mining
• D)data dump
• E)information overload

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Definitions:

Equity Method

An accounting technique used by companies to record their investments in other companies, where the investment gives the investor significant influence over the investee, but not control or full ownership.

Additional Paid-in Capital

The excess amount over the par value that shareholders pay when shares are issued, recorded in the equity section of the balance sheet.

Consolidated Earnings Per Share

A measure of a company's profitability that takes into account earnings from all of the entities it controls, presented on a per-share basis.