The auditor of Kaefer Manufacturing uses regression analysis during the analytical review stage of the firms annual
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a. Is there any statistical evidence to suggest a relationship between the monthly sales level and accounts receivable?
b. Referring to part a, would the relationship be described any better by including this month’s sales and the previous month’s sales (called lagged sales) in the equation for accounts receivable? What about adding the sales from more than a month ago to the equation? For this problem, why might it make accounting sense to include lagged sales variables in the equation? How do you interpret their coefficients?
c. During month 37, which is a fiscal year-end month, the sales were $1,800,000. The reported accounts receivable balance was $3,000,000. Does this reported amount seem consistent with past experience? Explain.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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Data Analysis And Decision Making
ISBN: 415
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Authors: Christian Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe
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