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Working capital equals current assets, including inventory, minus current liabilities.
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Horizontal analysis expresses each item as a percentage of the current year’s sales or total assets.
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Dividends are expensed on the declaration date, not on the payment date.
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Internal controls are the responsibility of the external auditor.
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The triple bottom line is so named because it consists of financial, environmental, and economic activity.
Question 6
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The production budget should be prepared before the direct labor budget.
Question 7
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Poor quality materials are a common cause of favorable materials price variances.
Question 8
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As variable costs increase, fixed costs per unit decrease.
Question 9
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In all cases in which FIFO is used, the cost of goods sold is the same whether a perpetual or periodic system is used.
Question 10
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The FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification creates a new set of generally accepted accounting principles.
Question 11
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Intraperiod tax allocation relates the income tax expense of a fiscal period to the specific items that give rise to the amount of the tax provision.
Question 12
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The unknown present value is always a larger amount than the known future value because dollars received currently are worth more than dollars to be received in the future.