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Doubletree Company’s financial statements show the following. The company recently discove...

Doubletree Company’s financial statements show the following. The company recently discovered that in making physical counts of inventory, it had made the following errors: Inventory on December 31, 2010, is understated by $50,000, and inventory on December 31, 2011, is overstated by $20,000.

For Year Ended December 31

2010

2011

2012

(a) Cost of goods sold

$ 725,000

$ 955,000

$ 790,000

(b) Net income

268,000

275,000

250,000

(c) Total current assets

1,247,000

1,360,000

1,230,000

(d) Total equity

1,387,000

1,580,000

1,245,000

Required

1. For each key financial statement figure—(a), (b), (c), and (d) above—prepare a table similar to the following to show the adjustments necessary to correct the reported amounts.

Figure: ______

2010

201 1

2012

Reported amount

______

______

______

Adjustments for: 12/31/2010 error

                      12/31/2011 error

______

______

______

______

______

______

Corrected amount

______

______

______

 

 

 

 


Analysis Component

2.  What is the error in total net income for the combined three-year period resulting from the inventory errors? Explain.


3.  Explain why the understatement of inventory by $50,000 at the end of 2010 results in an understatement of equity by the same amount in that year.

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