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Error correction; inventory error
• LO20–6
During 2018, WMC Corporation discovered that its ending inventories reported on its financial statements were misstated by the following amounts:
2016 | understated by | $120,000 |
2017 | overstated by | 150,000 |
WMC uses the periodic inventory system and the FIFO cost method.
Required:
1. Determine the effect of these errors on
2. Prepare a
3. What other steps would be taken in connection with the error?
On December 12, 2018, an investment costing $80,000 was sold for $100,000. The total of the sale proceeds was credited to the investment account.

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