Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting Plus Mylab Accounting With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (5th Edition) (miller-nobles Et Al., The Horngren Accounting Series)
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.9SE
Determining the effect of an inventory error
Mountain Pool Supplies’s merchandise inventory data for the year ended December 31, 2017, follow:
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- 1. Assume that the ending merchandise inventory was accidentally overstated by $1,300. What are the correct amounts for cost of goods sold and gross profit?
- 2. How would the inventory error affect Mountain Pool Supplies’s cost of goods sold and gross profit for the year ended December 31, 2018, if the error is not corrected in 2017?
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