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AccountingIntermediate Accounting: Reporting And AnalysisAnalyzing Starbucks’s Inventory Disclosures Obtain Starbucks’s 2017 annual report either using the “Investor Relations” portion of its web site (do a Web search for Starbucks investor relations) or go to http://www.sec.gov and click “Search for company filings” under “Filings and Forms (EDGAR).” Required: 1. What is the primary cost flow assumption that Starbucks uses: Discuss how the amounts reported under this assumption compare to amounts reported under alternative cost flow assumptions. Explain why you think Starbucks selected this method. 2. What type of inventory system—perpetual or periodic—do you think Starbucks uses? 3. Does Starbucks have any purchase commitments? If so, are they included in inventory? 4. Assume ending inventory for 2016 was $1,306.4 million. Compute the inventory turnover ratio for 2018 and 2017. What is your evaluation of the difference? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) 5. Recreate summary journal entries to record the transactions that affected inventory during 2018. (Assume all inventory purchases were on account.)
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Analyzing Starbucks’s Inventory Disclosures Obtain Starbucks’s 2017 annual report either using the “Investor Relations” portion of its web site (do a Web search for Starbucks investor relations) or go to http://www.sec.gov and click “Search for company filings” under “Filings and Forms (EDGAR).” Required: 1. What is the primary cost flow assumption that Starbucks uses: Discuss how the amounts reported under this assumption compare to amounts reported under alternative cost flow assumptions. Explain why you think Starbucks selected this method. 2. What type of inventory system—perpetual or periodic—do you think Starbucks uses? 3. Does Starbucks have any purchase commitments? If so, are they included in inventory? 4. Assume ending inventory for 2016 was $1,306.4 million. Compute the inventory turnover ratio for 2018 and 2017. What is your evaluation of the difference? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) 5. Recreate summary journal entries to record the transactions that affected inventory during 2018. (Assume all inventory purchases were on account.)

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Analyzing Starbucks’s Inventory Disclosures Obtain Starbucks’s 2017 annual report either using the “Investor Relations” portion of its web site (do a Web search for Starbucks investor relations) or go to http://www.sec.gov and click “Search for company filings” under “Filings and Forms (EDGAR).”

Required:

  1. 1. What is the primary cost flow assumption that Starbucks uses: Discuss how the amounts reported under this assumption compare to amounts reported under alternative cost flow assumptions. Explain why you think Starbucks selected this method.
  2. 2. What type of inventory system—perpetual or periodic—do you think Starbucks uses?
  3. 3. Does Starbucks have any purchase commitments? If so, are they included in inventory?
  4. 4. Assume ending inventory for 2016 was $1,306.4 million. Compute the inventory turnover ratio for 2018 and 2017. What is your evaluation of the difference? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
  5. 5. Recreate summary journal entries to record the transactions that affected inventory during 2018. (Assume all inventory purchases were on account.)

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