Senior Accountant Question:
Tell me what is Use of statistics in accounting?
Answer:
Well, in many accounting situations, there is too much data to go through all this. For example, if we are looking about Ford motor corp., and looking at some specific data, their may be too much to analyze, so we take a sample. Then we need to know how big a sample to take so we can say with 95% confidence that our results are representative of all the data.
Statistics tells us what sample size we need.
Statistics tells us what sample size we need.
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