1) Sentiment analysis techniques cannot be applied to which of the following types of data:

a. Transcripts of corporate conference calls

b. Management Discussion & Analysis in corporate annual reports

c. Social media discussions about a company's corporate social responsibility issues

d. Daily stock market trading volumes over the past 3 years

2) Which of the following analytic tasks is the most relevant for Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm:

a. To determine if a press release contains good news or bad news

b. To check if a certain variable is important for forecasting earnings

c. To examine how different firms cover different topics in their conference calls

d. To classify companies into high-growth and low-growth categories

e. To determine the whether the disclosure uses plain English

3) If we wish to determine the life cycle of a firm using the firm's financial statement data and other corporate disclosures, what is the most appropriate analytic technique for the task:

a. Classification analysis

b. Regression analysis

c. Sentiment analysis

d. Cluster analysis

4) In considering the effects of intragroup transactions on the calculation of profits attributable to NCI, we should adjust for

a. None of the other options

b. Only unrealized profits recorded by the parent

c. Only unrealized profits recorded by the subsidiary

d. All unrealized profits from intragroup transactions