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financial statements for the year ending 


The following information is available for Zip Corporation:
	Retained Earnings, December 31, 2012	$1,500,000
	Net Income for the year ended December 31, 2013	$   200,000

The company accountant, in preparing financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2013, has discovered the following information:
The company's previous bookkeeper, who has been fired, had recorded depreciation expense on equipment in 2011 and 2012 using the double-declining-balance method of depreciation. The bookkeeper neglected to use the straight-line method of depreciation which is the company's policy. The cumulative effects of the error on prior years was $25,000, ignoring income taxes. Depreciation was computed by the straight-line method in 2013.

Instructions
(a)	Prepare the entry for the prior period adjustment.
(b)	Prepare the retained earnings statement for 2013.





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