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Barrick Gold Corporation, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, is the world’s most profitable and largest gold mining company outside South Africa. Part of the key to Barrick’s success has been due to its ability to maintain cash flow while improving production and increasing its reserves of goldcontaining property. In the most recent year, Barrick achieved record growth in cash flow, production, and reserves. The company maintains an aggressive policy of developing previously identified target areas that have the possibility of a large amount of gold ore, and that have not been previously developed. Barrick limits the riskiness of this development by choosing only properties that are located in politically stable regions, and by the company’s use of internally generated funds, rather than debt, to finance growth. Barrick’s inventories are as follows.   Instructions (a) Why do you think that there are no finished goods inventories? Why do you think the raw material, ore in stockpiles, is considered to be a non-current asset? (b) Consider that Barrick has no finished goods inventories. What journal entries are made to record a sale? (c) Suppose that gold bullion that cost $1.8 million to produce was sold for $2.4 million. The journal entry was made to record the sale, but no entry was made to remove the gold from the gold in process inventory. How would this error affect the following? Balance Sheet Income Statement Inventory ? Cost of goods sold ? Retained earnings ? Net income ? Accounts payable ? Working capital ? Current ratio ?

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