Intermediate Accounting
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Author: J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
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Chapter 9, Problem 9.5BE
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Gross Profit Method: Under this method, the beginning inventory is added to the net purchases during the period which results in the goods available for sale. Then, the estimated cost of goods sold is deducted from the goods available for sale to estimate the ending inventory.
To Estimate: the cost of the inventory destroyed by the hurricane using the gross profit method.
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PROBLEM 17: The following information relates to NNN , Inc. which accidentally met a fire on the night of January 19, 2023:
Inventory, July 1, 2022 P 51,600
Purchases, July 1, 2022 to January 19, 2023 368,000
Sales, July 1, 2022 to January 19, 2023 583,000
Purchase returns 11,200
Purchase discounts taken 5,800
Freight in 3,800
Sales returns 8,600
The fire destroyed the entire inventory except for purchases in transit, FOB shipping point of P2,000 and goods having selling price of P4,900 that were salvaged from the fire. The average gross profit rate on net sales is 40%.
22. Compute for the cost of inventory lost in the fire.
E9.14B (L0 4)
(Gross Profit Method)
Wineview Company lost most of its inventory in a fire in December just before the yearend
physical inventory was taken. The corporation’s books disclosed the following.
Beginning inventory
$210,000
Sales
$970,000
Purchases for the year
805,000
Sales returns
71,000
Purchase returns
15,000
Rate of gross margin on net sales
20%
Merchandise with a selling price of $51,000 remained undamaged after the fire. Damaged merchandise with an original selling
price of $25,000 had a net realizable value of $2,500.
Instructions
Compute the amount of the loss as a result of the fire, assuming that the company had no insurance coverage.
PROBLEM 16: On May 6, 2023, a flashflood caused damage to the merchandise stored in the warehouse of Rome Company. You were asked to submit an estimate of the merchandise destroyed in the warehouse. The following data were established:
A. Net sales for 2022 were P800,000 matched against cost of P560,000.
B. Merchandise inventory, January 1, 2023 was P200,000, 90% of which was in the warehouse and 10% in the downtown showrooms.
C. For January 1, 2023 to date of flood, you ascertained that the invoice value of purchases, all of which were stored in the warehouse, P100,000; freight inward, P4,000; purchases returned, P6,000.
D. Cost of merchandise transferred from the warehouse to showrooms was P8,000 and net sales from January 1 to May 6, 2023, all of which were warehouse stock, were
P320,000.
E. There was no change in the gross profit rate adopted by the company in 2023.
21. What is the estimated merchandise destroyed by the flood?
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Intermediate Accounting
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