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- December 4, 2014 at 3:39 pm #217411
Goods which had cost $2000 has been sent to customer just before the year end on a sale and return basis. These had been accounted for as a firm sale, with a profit of 20% of cost. No confirmation of the sale has been received from customer.
For the adjustment of profit, of course, should deduct $400 as no sale confirmation.
Further thinking, if the question also mentioned that stock which costs $2000 is not included in the closing stock as it is not in the warehouse.
To adjust the profit, am I right to add $2000 profit for this case, so together with the above effect, a net off amount of $1600 profit should be added to the profit?
December 4, 2014 at 3:49 pm #217421No.
You would increase the inventory (we stopped calling it stock many years ago 🙂 ) by 2,000; but we would also reduce the sales by 2,400.
So the net effect is that profit is reduced by 400.
(I do actually explain this bit in the lecture – you should not use the course notes without the lectures because it is in the lectures that we explain and expand on the course notes)
December 6, 2014 at 3:30 am #218760Thanks John.
Therefore originally we deduct $400 from profit already implies that $2000 cost in not included in the inventory?
December 6, 2014 at 10:38 am #218826Yes – correct 🙂
December 6, 2014 at 3:21 pm #218918Thanks John!!
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