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41-50
41-50
10
Business
Undergraduate 3
12/05/2011

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41.Estelita, a student who is researching forensic accounting, is preparing to interview an experienced accountant.  To conduct an effective interview, Estelita should
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learn as much as possible about the forensic accounting field before conducting theinterview.

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42.Which of the following situations would most likely require observation or scientific experimentation?
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You need to determine the average time it takes your customer service representatives to process a customer return.

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43.Nicole will carefully document her sources in a report she is submitting to her boss. Which of the following is a reason that Nicole should do this?
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To strengthen her argument
To instruct her reader
To protect herself against charges of plagiarism
***All of the above are reasons for documenting report data

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44.Which of the following statements would need to be documented in a report?
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One third of all teenagers who use the Internet say they have been targets of cyberbullying.

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45.Paraphrasing
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involves accurately presenting ideas from another source in your own words and sentence structure.

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46.Knowledgeable report writers use direct quotations to
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repeat identical phrasing of a source because of its precision and clarity.
provide objective background data and establish the severity of a problem.
duplicate the exact wording of a source before criticizing.

***all of the above.

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47.Kristin has a large amount of quantitative data made up of exact figures that she needs to present in a report. Kristin should present this data using a(n)
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table.

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48.The best choice for showing changes in a company’s yearly sales for the last five years is a(n)
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line chart.

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49.Terrance needs to select one visual tool that will compare related items, illustrate changes in data over time, and show segments as part of the whole. His best choice is a(n)
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bar chart.

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50.When you incorporate a graphic in the body of your report, you should
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be sure to include a reference to the graphic in the text.

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