Listed below are various types of accounting changes and errors. ______ 1. Change in the amortization period

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Listed below are various types of accounting changes and errors.
______ 1. Change in the amortization period for a trademark.
______ 2. Change from double-declining-balance method to straight-line method of depreciation.
______ 3. Change from FIFO to average-cost inventory method.
______ 4. Change from percentage-of-completion to completed-contract method on construction contracts.
______ 5. Change in equipment’s salvage value.
______ 6. Change due to understatement of inventory.
______ 7. Change in the rate used to compute bad debt expense.
______ 8. Change from presenting unconsolidated to consolidated financial statements.
______ 9. Change from direct write-off to allowance method of accounting for bad debts.
______ 10. Change from LIFO to average-cost inventory method.

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For each change or error, indicate how it would be accounted for using the following code letters:
a. Accounted for prospectively.
b. Accounted for retrospectively.
c. Neither of the above.

Salvage Value
Salvage value is the estimated book value of an asset after depreciation is complete, based on what a company expects to receive in exchange for the asset at the end of its useful life. As such, an asset’s estimated salvage value is an important...
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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 978-1118147290

15th edition

Authors: Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, and Terry D. Warfield

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