ACCT 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gross Margin

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Often a business must estimate the value of its goods. The gross profit method also known as the gross margin method, is widely used to estimate ending inventory. Analyze how inventory errors affect the financial statements. Inventory errors counterbalance in two consecutive periods. Period 1"s ending inventory becomes period 2"s beginning inventory amount. Thus the error in period 1 carries over into period 2. Beginning inventory and ending inventory have opposite effects on cost of goods sold (beginning inventory is added; ending inventory is subtracted); therefore, after two periods, an inventory accounting error washes out (counterbalances) There is a direct relationship between ending inventory (ei) and gross profit (gp) but an inverse relationship between beginning inventorying (bi) and gross profit. The understatement of ei results in an understatement of gp but an understatement of bi results in an overstatement of gp. Ei understated = cogs overstated and gp understated. Bi understated = cogs understated and gp overstated.

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