Relevance is defined as
A) choosing accounting policies without attempting to achieve purposes other than
measuring economic impact.
B) the capability of information to make a difference to the decision maker.
C) the quality of information that allows users to depend on it to represent the
conditions or events that it purports to represent.
D) a correspondence between the accounting numbers and the resources or events those
numbers purport to represent.
E) a quality of information such that there would be a high extent of consensus among
independent measurers of an item.
The entry to record the cash payment of salaries that had previously been accrued has
what effect on the basic accounting equation?
A) Decrease liabilities, decrease assets
B) Decrease liabilities, decrease stockholders’ equity
C) Decrease assets, decrease stockholders’ equity
D) Decrease assets, increase stockholders’ equity
E) Decrease assets, increase liabilities