Accounting for accounting changes and errors listed below


Accounting for Accounting Changes and Errors

Listed below are various types of accounting changes and errors.

  • Change in a plant asset's salvage value.
  • Change due to overstatement of inventory.
  • Change from sum-of-the-years'-digits to straight-line method of depreciation.
  • Change from presenting unconsolidated to consolidated financial statements.
  • Change from LIFO to FIFO inventory method.
  • Change in the rate used to compute warranty costs.
  • Change from an unacceptable accounting principle to an acceptable accounting principle.
  • Change in a patent's amortization period.
  • Change from completed-contract to percentage-of-completion method on construction contracts.
  • Change from FIFO to average-cost inventory method.

Instructions

For each change or error, indicate how it would be accounted for using the following code letters:

  1. Accounted for prospectively.
  2. Accounted for retrospectively.
  3. Neither of the above.

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Accounting Basics: Accounting for accounting changes and errors listed below
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