Intermediate Accounting
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Chapter 8, Problem 8.24E
Dollar-value LIFO
• LO8–8
Mercury Company has only one inventory pool. On December 31, 2018, Mercury adopted the dollar-value LIFO inventory method. The inventory on that date using the dollar-value LIFO method was $200,000. Inventory data are as follows:
| Year | Ending Inventory at Year-End Costs | Ending Inventory at Base Year Costs |
| 2019 | $231,000 | $220,000 |
| 2020 | 299,000 | 260,000 |
| 2021 | 300,000 | 250,000 |
Required:
Compute the inventory at December 31, 2019, 2020, and 2021, using the dollar-value LIFO method.
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E9.3B (L0 1) (LCNRV) Sunshine Company follows the practice of pricing its inventory at LCNRV, on an individual-item basis.
Item No.
Quantity
Cost per Unit
Cost to Replace
Estimated
Selling Price
Cost of Completion and Disposal
Normal
Profi t
A
1,200
$8.10
$8.00
$9.00
$0.35
$0.90
B
600
6.00
5.60
6.00
0.45
0.50
C
200
5.50
5.00
7.00
0.40
1.00
D
700
7.25
7.50
8.00
0.50
0.90
E
1,000
2.10
2.00
2.80
0.65
0.20
F
500
4.05
4.00
5.00
0.40
0.75
G
2,000
8.75
8.15
9.00
0.60
0.50
H
300
9.95
9.00
10.50
0.30
1.00
Instructions
From the information above,
determine the amount of Sunshine Company inventory using the LCNRV method.
determine the amount of Sunshine Company inventory using the LCM method.
P6.11 (LO 6), AP Rayre Books uses the retail inventory method to estimate its monthly ending invento-
ries. The following information is available for two of its departments at October 31, 2022.
Hardcovers Paperbacks
Cost Retail Cost Retail
Beginning inventory $ 420,000 $ 640,000 $ 280,000 $ 360,000
Purchases 2,135,000 3,200,000 1,155,000 1,540,000
Freight-in 24,000 12,000
Purchase discounts 44,000 22,000
Net sales 3,100,000 1,570,000
At December 31, Rayre Books takes a physical inventory at retail. The actual retail values of the inven-
tories in each department are Hardcovers $744,000 and Paperbacks $335,000.
Instructions
a. Determine the estimated cost ofthe ending inventory for each department at October 31, 2022,
using the retail inventory method.
b. Compute the ending inventory at cost for each department atDecember 31, assuming the cost-to-
retail ratios for the year are 65% for Hardcovers and 75% for Paperbacks.
E8.12 (LO 3) (FIFO, LIFO, Average-Cost Inventory) Shania Twain Company was formed onDecember 1, 2019. The following information is available from Twain’s inventory records for Product BAP.
Units Unit CostJanuary 1, 2020 (beginning inventory) 600 $ 8.00Purchases:January 5, 2020 1,200 9.00January 25, 2020 1,300 10.00February 16, 2020 800 11.00March 26, 2020 600 12.00
A physical inventory on March 31, 2020, shows 1,600 units on hand.InstructionsPrepare schedules to compute the ending inventory at March 31, 2020, under each of the following inventory methods.a. FIFO b. LIFO. c. Weighted-average (round unit costs to two decimal places)
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