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📚 CAE Topics to Study (42)

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✍️ Sample CAE Questions & Answers

1. What quality assurance measure supports applied methods and techniques?

✓ Regular self-assessment, peer review, and adherence to established standards

Ongoing quality assurance through self-assessment, peer review, and standards adherence ensures continuous improvement.

2. A building has an effective age of 15 years and a total economic life of 60 years. Using the age-life method, what is the percentage of accrued depreciation?

✓ 25%

Age-life depreciation equals effective age divided by total economic life: 15 ÷ 60 = 25%.

3. How is the coefficient of dispersion (COD) calculated in a ratio study?

✓ Average absolute deviation of ratios from the median ratio, divided by the median ratio, times 100

COD measures uniformity as the average absolute deviation from the median expressed as a percentage of the median.

4. Which of the following is a payment made by a tax-exempt entity to a local government in place of property taxes?

✓ PILOT

PILOTs are voluntary or negotiated payments in lieu of taxes from exempt owners.

5. What is the significance of the 'assessment freeze' remedy in some property tax appeals?

✓ It prevents the assessor from increasing the value for a set number of years following a successful appeal

An assessment freeze remedy following a successful appeal prevents the assessor from raising the property's value back up for a specified period, protecting the taxpayer's win.

6. A house has only one bathroom for five bedrooms, and adding a second bath would cost less than the value it adds. How is this deficiency classified?

✓ Curable functional obsolescence

It is a design inadequacy (functional), and it is curable because the cost to fix it is less than the value gained.

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