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Write a minimum of 250 words for each of the discussion questions below:
1:Select a discrete probability distribution, and provide a real-life example or application of that distribution. Explain how your example matches the conditions for the particular distribution that you have selected.
2:Select a continuous probability distribution, and provide a real-life example or application of that distribution. Explain how your example matches the conditions for the particular distribution that you have selected.
In your two replies to classmates, use reasoning to agree or to disagree with their classifications of the probability distributions that they have selected. Provide insights for ways to verify that their labeling of their selected probability distributions are appropriate.
Assignment 2: Accounting Quality
Based on the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC reporting requirements for publicly traded companies,
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1. Evaluate the critical elements of accounting quality. Compare and contrast balance sheet quality with earnings quality. Explain why both are important to financial statement readers.
2. Share one example of earnings management, explaining how it might be perpetrated and ways that investors might detect such behavior.
3. Examine the role of the executive leadership team (e.g., CEO and CFO) in establishing an ethical environment and corporate culture that promotes high quality financial reporting.
4. Assess the potential consequences for a publicly traded company when accounting quality is inadequate. Explain how management might minimize those consequences.
5. Evaluate the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding accounting quality, indicating whether the current provisions are adequate to protect stakeholders. Support your position.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Assess the framework and reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for publicly traded companies.
Evaluate the quality of accounting information for an organization, including the economic content and earnings sustainability.
Task description
Write a statistical data analysis report on a specific research question. The research question and corresponding data are assigned to you.
Youmustincludeinyourreportanexploratorydataanalysisincluding appropriate summary statistics, as well as appropriate univariate and bivariate graphical depictions for all relevant variables in the given data set.
You must state an appropriate hypothesis in verbal as well as mathe- matical form, given the research question for your report.
Youmustapplytwodifferenttestapproachestofalsifyyourhypothesis in your report.
You must explain each test approach. You must cite your sources properly (including the relevant page numbers when your source is a book).
You must verify in an appropriate way each necessary assumption for each test approach you apply.
You must discuss your statistical test results in terms of statistical significance and practical significance of the observed effect size.
Youmustdiscusswhatconclusionscanbedrawnfromyourtestresults, and what alternative interpretations or what alternative reasons for your test results are possible.
You must state which test result you rather trust and why, if the test results of your two different approaches differ.
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You must follow either The Chicago Manual of Style or The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for citations, style, and format in your report.
You should keep the word count of your report below 6000 words.
While you should not include any software commands in your ac- tual report, you must include in an appendix reproducible software commands that allow the reader to generate all reported statistics and included figures. The appendix is not included in the word count for your report.
You must submit your report as a PDF.
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