On the store’s balance sheet, those lawyer bills and the lost income while in prison just might exceed $2.00.
You’re speculating.
I’ll speculate too. The thief would have grown bolder and killed an innocent or twenty.
I don’t even shoot bears making a mess in my restaurant’s dumpster.
‘On the store’s balance sheet, those lawyer bills and the lost income while in prison just might exceed $2.00.’
the balance sheet will show a reduction of an minor inventory item with no offset in cash; the P&L is where the real action would be, with the outlandish legal expenses, with the corresponding cash outlay...though the store would make out with a lessening of payroll liability,and the retention of that cash...