The Understatement of the Ending Inventory Balance Causes

question 21

Multiple Choice

The understatement of the ending inventory balance causes:

• A) Cost of goods sold to be overstated and net income to be understated.
• B) Cost of goods sold to be overstated and net income to be overstated.
• C) Cost of goods sold to be understated and net income to be understated.
• D) Cost of goods sold to be understated and net income to be overstated.
• E) Cost of goods sold to be overstated and net income to be correct.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

Error that occurs when the null hypothesis is true but the decision is made to reject the null hypothesis.

Probability

Likelihood of occurrence of a particular outcome of an event given all possible outcomes.

Familywise Error

The probability of making one or more false discoveries, or type I errors, when performing multiple hypotheses tests.

Scheffé Test

Statistical procedure used to control familywise error when conducting all possible simple and complex comparisons in a set of data.