Assignment

PROBLEM 6-3 (page 277 in Fundamental Accounting Principles, 22 ed.)

Montoure Company uses a perpetual inventory system. It entered into the following calendar-year 2015 purchases and sales transactions. (For specific identification, units sold consist of 600 units from beginning inventory, 300 from the February 10 purchase, 200 from the March 13 purchase, 50 from the August 21 purchase, and 250 from the September 5 purchase.)

Date        Activities                       Units Acquired at Cost                                Units Sold at Retail

Jan. 1      Beginning inventory        600 units @ $45.00 per unit

Feb. 10    Purchase                       400 units @ $42.00 per unit

Mar. 13    Purchase                       200 units @ $27.00 per unit

Mar. 15    Sales                                                                                            800 units @ $75.00 per unit

Aug. 21   Purchase                       100 units @ $50.00 per unit

Sept. 5    Purchase                       500 units @ $46.00 per unit

Sept. 10  Sales                                                                                            600 units  @ $75.00 per unit

              Totals                           1,800 units                                                1,400 units

Required:

1. Compute cost of goods available for sale and the number of units available for sale.

2. Compute the number of units in ending inventory.

3. Compute the cost assigned to ending inventory using (a) FIFO, (b) LIFO, (c) weighted average, and (d) specific identification. (Round all amounts to cents.)

4. Compute gross profit earned by the company for each of the four costing methods in part 3.

5. If the company's manager earns a bonus based on a percent of gross profit, which method of inventory costing will the manager likely prefer?

PROBLEM 6-9 (page 279 in Fundamental Accounting Principles, 22 ed.)

The records of Alaska Company provide the following information for the year ended December 31.

                                                 At Cost             At Retail

January 1 beginning inventory       $ 469,010         $ 928,950

Cost of goods purchased              3,376,050         6,381,050

Sales                                                                  5,595,800

Sales returns                                                       42,800

Required:

1. Use the retail inventory method to estimate the company's year-end inventory at cost.

2. A year-end physical inventory at retail prices yields a total inventory of $1,686,900. Prepare a calculation showing the company's loss from shrinkage at cost and at retail.

PROBLEM 6-10 (page 279 in Fundamental Accounting Principles, 22 ed.)

Wayward Company wants to prepare interim financial statements for the first quarter. The company wishes to avoid making a physical count of inventory. Wayward's gross profit rate averages 34%. The following information for the first quarter is available from its records.

January 1 beginning inventory       $ 302,580

Cost of goods purchased              941,040

Sales                                          1,211,160

Sales returns                               8,410

Required

Use the gross profit method to estimate the company's first quarter ending inventory.