Question: Where can one look for memorization clues concerning accent positions?

Is "Comparative and historical linguistics offers some clues for memorising the accent position: If one compares many standard Serbo-Croatian words to e.g. cognate Russian words, the accent in the Serbo-Croatian word will be one syllable before the one in the Russian word, with the rising tone." the correct answer?
Choices:
A). yes.
B). no.
A).