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Landon mars, the company bookkeeper, recorded the $10,000 purchase of land as rent expense by decreasing cash and decreasing shareholders' equity. what is the effect of this error on the accounting equation

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I think the most appropriate would be that, Landom Mars, should increase his shareholders' equity instead of decreasing it, and the "decreasing cash" is correct.

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