Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780133791129
Author: Jane L. Reimers
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
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Chapter 10, Problem 2CTP
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To determine
Explain the ethical implications of Person A’s actions.
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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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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.
Explain if you think there are ethical implications of Bill’s actions.
Which ratios will be affected, and how, by accelerating these sales?
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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 that he knew some accounting tricks that could increase company income by simply revising a few journal entries for rental payments on storage units. At the end of the year, Roy changed the debits from “rent expense” to “prepaid rent” on several entries. Later, Hugh got his bonus, and the deviations were never discovered.
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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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