Financial Accounting: Business Process Approach, Student Value Edition Plus New Mylab Accounting With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (3rd Edition)
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Chapter 10, Problem 2CTP
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Explain the ethical implications of Person A’s actions.
2.
To determine
Identify the ratios that would accelerate after the sales.
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ACME Company sells computer components and plans on borrowing some money to expand. After reading a lot about earnings management, Bill, the owner of ACME, has decided he should try to accelerate some sales to improve his financial statement ratios. He has called his best customers and asked them to make their usual January purchases by December 31. Bill told the customers he would allow them, until the end of February, to pay for the purchases, just as if they had made their purchases in January.
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How did the change in the journal entries affect the net income of the company at year-end?
How did the change in the journal entries affect the net income of the company at year-end?
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 he knew of some accounting tricks to increase the company’s income by simply revising a few journal entries for rental payments on storage units. At the end of the year, Roy changed the debits form “rent expense” to “prepaid rent” on several entries. Later Hugh got his bonus, and the deviations were never discovered.
How did the change in the journal entries affect the net income of the company at year-end?
Who gained and who lost as a result of these actions?
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