Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Managerial Chapters Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText - Access Card Package (6th Edition)

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ISBN: 9780134674674

Author: MILLER-NOBLES

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 2, Problem 2.1FC

Roy Akins was the accounting manager at Zelco, a tire manufacturer, and he played golf with Hugh Stallings, the CEO, who was something of a celebrity in the community. The CEO stood to earn a substantial bonus if Zelco increased net income by year-end. Roy was eager to get into Hugh’s elite social circle; he boasted to Hugh that he knew some accounting tricks that could increase company income by simply revising a few journal entries for rental payments on storage units. At the end of the year, Roy changed the debits from “rent expense” to “prepaid rent” on several entries. Later, Hugh got his bonus, and the deviations were never discovered.

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1. How did the change in the journal entries affect the net income of the company at year-end?

2. Who gained and who lost as a result of these actions?

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Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Managerial Chapters Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText - Access Card Package (6th Edition)

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