Perspective vs. perception?

[Ashwini KUmar V]

Test No. incompl/advan-55 "Finance", question 9

The figures that have just been published by the company's accountants will give management some kind of ......... on how sales are going.

(a) prospective
(b) perception
(c) perusal
(d) perspective

Test No. incompl/advan-55 "Finance", answer 9

The figures that have just been published by the company's accountants will give management some kind of perspective on how sales are going.

Correct answer: (d) perspective

Your answer was: incorrect
The figures that have just been published by the company's accountants will give management some kind of perception on how sales are going.
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Please see the question below:
correct sentence:
The figures that have just been published by the company's accountants will give management some kind of perspective on how sales are going.

Correct answer: (d) perspective

Your answer was: incorrect
your sentence:
The figures that have just been published by the company's accountants will give management some kind of perception on how sales are going.

Q. Why "perception" is wrong."Perception" mean a idea ablut certain thing. But "Perspective " mean a way to look at certain thing.

[Alan]

Hi,

I think what is needed in this sentence is perspective used in the sense of indication or trend. To my mind perception is an understanding as made by a person and here in this sentence the figures mentioned at the start of the sentence are inanimate and therefore could not be expected to understand.

Alan
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[Alan]

Management isn't specified here and that's why there is no definite article. The word is used here in a very general sense to describe people in charge/at the top.
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