Mistaking a capital expenditure for a revenue expenditure overstates expenses, understates net profit and total assets, and understates owner's equity. The asset's value is wrongly expensed in the income statement instead of appearing as a long-term asset on the balance sheet.
A bookkeeper mistakenly treats a capital expenditure item as revenue expenditure. What is the effects of this error?
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