Answer:
1. False
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
Explanation:
1.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act was a federal law that was established by congress to sweep auditing and financial statements for public companies. The main aim for this was to improve the investor confidence by improving reliability in accounting statements. Errors in the financial statements for the public companies were to be minimized following this law especially in the wake of numerous cases of corporate crime. This law was never passed to ensure that investors only invest in companies that will be profitable, since the choice of which company to invest in is exclusively left to the investor. So the above statement is false.
2.
Ethics can be defined as a set of rules and regulation that govern the moral behavior of someone. Ethical standards vary from one region to another since they are majorly cultural, for example; a behavior in the United States can be considered as appropriate while the same behavior in a different place can be inappropriate. Ethical standards are either right or wrong, and the actions are judged on these terms. Ethics don't measure whether a actions are loyal or disloyal, thus the statement is false.
3.
The primary accounting standard setting body in the United States is Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). This body is charged with regulating and setting the best standard of accounting practice. The FASB usually constitutes a board whose officials are rigorously assessed. The board members have to be professionals in the field of accounting. Securities and Exchange Commission on the other hand is an independent federal agency with the authority to enforce federal security laws. Thus the statement above is false.
4.
The historical cost principle suggests that the companies record assets cost at their original cost and continue to report them at their original cost over the time the asset is held. The historical cost principle is a generally accepted accounting principle that has been in use for a long time. The definition about the historical cost principle in the question above is therefor true.
5.
The monetary unit assumption dictates that business related activities be converted to monetary units. There are some business transactions that are however quite difficult to convert into monetary units, therefor the accountant in using this principle is only obliged to record only the transactions that can be measured in money terms. The statement about monetary units in the question above is thus true.
Answer: B- the change in total utility from consuming one more unit of a good
Explanation: Marginal utility is the change in utility that arises from consuming one more unit of a good or service.
Utility is the total satisfaction that occurs from consuming a commodity or service.
Average utility is total utility divided by the number of goods consumed.
C , calling a potential customer to inform them about a new program
When the price of the good is fixed at a level below the current (equilibrium) price, there will be a shortage of the good and the good will have to be effectively rationed. As in the question above, the consumer is worse off because she is not able to attain her utility maximizing point.
Complete Question:
Fed up with her working conditions at the call center, Lisa decides to invest in a state-of-the-art sewing machine and produce limited quantities of her own clothing designs. After a few months of operation, she decides to apply some of the forecasting techniques she mastered in school. Which of these statements about her forecasts is correct?
- Her forecasts will probably be 100% accurate.
- Her demand forecasts for a year from now will probably be more accurate than her demand forecasts for three months from now.
- Her demand forecasts for each style of skirt will be less accurate than her demand forecasts for all skirts.
- The best way for her to determine the amount of fabric she needs is to forecast it based on her customer orders for each type of skirt.
Answer:
Option 4 is the correct answer
Explanation:
Because the only best way to forecast the amount of fabric required for the is dependent upon the number of customer orders for each type of skirt she receives.
Remember that the forecasting cannot be 100% correct because we human and we cannot tell the future with 100% surety. All we can do is guessing what would happen.
With the help of past data we can better estimate the demand. As their is no past data available we can make a reliable forecast of the skirt sales.
Option 3 is also incorrect because forecasting is dependant upon the reliable source of information which helps in estimating what would happen. Estimating single or combined sales is not a reliable source of information.
