Intermediate Accounting
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259722660
Author: J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 20, Problem 20.12BE
Error correction
• LO20–6
In 2018, the internal auditors of Development Technologies, Inc., discovered that (a) 2017 accrued wages of $2 million were not recognized until they were paid in 2018, and (b) a $3 million purchase of merchandise in 2018 was recorded in 2017 instead. The physical inventory count at the end of 2017 was correct. Ignoring income taxes, what
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You were engaged by CPA Co. to audit its financial statements for the first time. In examining the books,
you found out that certain adjustments had been overlooked at the end of 2019 and 2020. You also
discovered that other items had been improperly recorded. These omissions and other failures for each
year are summarized below:
12/31/2020
12/31/2019
Salaries payable
P780,000
213,000
307,800
P873,600
Interest receivable
259,200
384,000
Prepaid insurance
Advances from customers (collections from customers had
been recorded as sales but should have been recognized
as advances from customers because goods were not
shipped until the following year)
Machinery (capital expenditures had been recorded as
repairs but should have been charged to Machinery; the
depreciation rate is 10% per year, but depreciation in the
year of expenditure is to be recognized at 5%)
561,000
470,400
522,000
564,000
Required: Based on the above and the result of your audit, determine the following:…
Multiple Choice Question 110
Using the percentage-of-receivables method for recording bad debt expense, estimated uncollectible accounts are
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