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The company also needed to acquire a series of parts to hold as stock on hand. At the end of the year the company had closing stock of $146,000. Of this figure the directors believed that $85,000 represented obsolete stock and wished to write off this amount. The financial accountant had not done this in deriving the profit of $750,000 as he was unsure of how to account for it in the financial accounts. The obsolete stock had been scrapped at the end of the year and taken to a metal recycler.
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