An Error in the Physical Count of Goods on Hand

question 29

Short Answer

An error in the physical count of goods on hand at the end of a period resulted in a $10,000 overstatement of the ending inventory.The effect of this error in the current period is

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Definitions:

Capital-market Line

A line on a graph representing the rates of return for efficient portfolios that optimally balance risk and return, based on the risk-free rate and the market portfolio.

Capital-allocation Line

A line on a graph that represents the risk-and-return profiles of risky assets, showing the possible combinations of risk and return that are available.

Efficient Frontier

A concept in modern portfolio theory representing a set of optimal investment portfolios that offer the highest expected return for a defined level of risk or the lowest risk for a given level of expected return.

Capital Asset Pricing Model

A model that describes the relationship between systemic risk and expected return for assets, particularly stocks, used to calculate a theoretically appropriate required rate of return for an asset, given its non-diversifiable risk.