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Failure to prepare an adjusting entry at the end of a period to record an accrued revenue would cause: Question 2 Answer a. An understatement of revenues and an understatement of liabilities b. Profit to be overstated c. An understatement of assets and an understatement of revenues d. An understatement of revenues and an overstatement of liabilities

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Failure to prepare an adjusting entry at the end of a period to record an accrued revenue would cause: Question 2 Answer

a. An understatement of revenues and an understatement of liabilities

b. Profit to be overstated

c. An understatement of assets and an understatement of revenues

d. An understatement of revenues and an overstatement of liabilities

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Solution

The correct answer is:

c. An understatement of assets and an understatement of revenues

Here's why:

Accrued revenues are revenues that have been earned (thus they are assets), but have not yet been recorded in the books or received. If an adjusting entry is not made to record these revenues, then the assets (accounts receivable) will be understated because the revenue that has been earned but not yet recorded is an asset.

Similarly, revenues will also be understated because the revenue has been earned but not yet recorded.

So, the failure to prepare an adjusting entry at the end of a period to record an accrued revenue would cause an understatement of assets and an understatement of revenues.

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