1 Accounting

The following are 10 technical accounting terms.

Net present value Capital budgeting Incremental analysis Discount rate Payback period Present value Sunk cost Salvage value Return on average investment Capital budget audit Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms.

For each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer None if the statement does not correctly describe any of the terms.

a the examination of difference among revenue, costs, and cash flows under alternative courses of actions

b a cost incurred in the past that cannot be changed as a result of future actions

c the process of planning and evaluating proposals for investments in plan assets

d the average annual net income from an investment expresses as a percentage of the average amount invested

e the length of time necessary to recover the entire cost of an investment from resulting annual net cash flows

f the present value of investment's expected future cash flows

g the amount of the money today that is considered equivalent to the cash flows expected to take place in the future

h the required rate of return used by an investor to discount future cash flows to their present value

i often an investment's final cash flows to be considered in discounted cash flow analysis