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Accounting: What the Numbers Mean 9th Edition by Wayne W McManus, Daniel F Viele, David H Marshall

Edition 9ISBN: 0073527068
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Accounting: What the Numbers Mean 9th Edition by Wayne W McManus, Daniel F Viele, David H Marshall

Edition 9ISBN: 0073527068
Exercise 25
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"Error"

"Correct"

 

Beginning inventory

$100,000

$100,000

 

Add: Purchases

300,000

300,000

 

Goods available for sale

$400,000

$400,000

 

Less: Ending inventory

(100,000)

(60,000)

 

Cost of goods sold

$300,000

$340,000

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The overstatement of ending inventory causes cost of goods sold to be too low, so gross profit and operating income are too high, or overstated, by $40,000.


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