Triple Bottom Line Refers to

question 141

Multiple Choice

Triple bottom line refers to

• A) the recognition of the need for organizations to improve the state of people, the planet, and profit simultaneously if they are to achieve sustainable, long-term growth.
• B) the obligations an organization has to those who can affect achievement of its sales, profit, and market share objectives simultaneously.
• C) the recognition of the need for organizations to be responsible simultaneously to shareholders, employees, and customers.
• D) the obligations an organization has to practice profit, stakeholder, and societal responsibility simultaneously.
• E) three different financial statements prepared in three different formats: one for governmental regulators, one for shareholders, and one for internal use.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, effectively dividing the dataset into two halves.

IQR

IQR, or Interquartile Range, measures the middle 50% spread of a dataset by calculating the difference between the first (25th percentile) and third (75th percentile) quartiles.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset.

Median

The middle value in a data set when it is organized in ascending or descending order, or the average of the two middle values if the set has an even number of observations.