Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
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ISBN: 9781259535314
Author: David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, Daniel Viele
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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LO 7

Effects of inventory errors

  1. If the beginning balance of the Inventory account and the cost of items purchased or made during the period are correct, but an error resulted in overstating the firm’s ending inventory balance by $15,000, how would the firm’s cost of goods sold be affected? Explain your answer by drawing T-accounts for the Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold accounts and entering amounts that illustrate the difference between correctly stating and overstating the ending inventory balance.
  2. If management wanted to understate profits, would ending inventory be understated or overstated? Explain your answer.

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Exercise 9-9 (Static) Effects of inventory error LO 9-2 If the ending inventory of a firm is overstated by $70,000, by how much and in what direction (overstated or understated) will the firm's operating income be misstated? (Hint: Use the cost of goods sold model, enter hypothetically "correct" data, and then reflect the effects of the ending inventory error and determine the effect on cost of goods sold.) Operating income by
Question: 37 With regard to the retail inventory method, which of the following is the most accounts statement? A. Generally, accountants ignore net markups and net markdowns in computing the cost-price percentage. B. Generally, accountants include both net markups and net markdowns in computing the cost-price percentage. C. This method results in a lower ending inventory cost if net markups are included but net markdowns are excluded in computing the cost- price percentage. D. It is not adaptable to LIFO costing.

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