Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9781259969478
Author: WILLIAM LANEN, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 21CADQ
After doing an account analysis and giving the results to your boss, you discover an error in the data for 3 of the 24 months covered by your analysis. In 6 of the 24 months, your assistant had dropped 000 from the costs. Therefore, you thought $10,000,000 was $10,000, for example. You informed your boss, who said that the analysis had already been passed on to a top executive who was going to use it in a presentation to the board of directors tomorrow. Your boss does not want to tell the top executive about the error. Should you?
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