Problem 1
Pearl Company, a manufacturer of small tools, provided the following information from its accounting records for the year ended December 31, 2017.
| Inventory at December 31, 2017 (based on physical count of goods in Pearl's plant, at cost, on December 31, 2017) |
$1,419,220 |
| Accounts payable at December 31, 2017 |
1,295,400 |
| Net sales (sales less sales returns) |
8,926,300 |
Additional information is as follows.
1. Included in the physical count were tools billed to a customer f.o.b. shipping point on December 31, 2017. These tools had a cost of $32,100 and were billed at $41,100. The shipment was on Pearl's loading dock waiting to be picked up by the common carrier.
2. Goods were in transit from a vendor to Pearl on December 31, 2017. The invoice cost was $77,100, and the goods were shipped f.o.b. shipping point on December 29, 2017.
3. Work in process inventory costing $31,100 was sent to an outside processor for plating on December 30, 2017.
4. Tools returned by customers and held pending inspection in the returned goods area on December 31, 2017, were not included in the physical count. On January 8, 2018, the tools costing $33,100 were inspected and returned to inventory. Credit memos totaling $48,100 were issued to the customers on the same date.
5. Tools shipped to a customer f.o.b. destination on December 26, 2017, were in transit at December 31, 2017, and had a cost of $27,100. Upon notification of receipt by the customer on January 2, 2018, Pearl issued a sales invoice for $43,100.
6. Goods, with an invoice cost of $28,100, received from a vendor at 5:00 p.m. on December 31, 2017, were recorded on a receiving report dated January 2, 2018. The goods were not included in the physical count, but the invoice was included in accounts payable at December 31, 2017.
7. Goods received from a vendor on December 26, 2017, were included in the physical count. However, the related $57,100 vendor invoice was not included in accounts payable at December 31, 2017, because the accounts payable copy of the receiving report was lost.
8. On January 3, 2018, a monthly freight bill in the amount of $9,100 was received. The bill specifically related to merchandise purchased in December 2017, one-half of which was still in the inventory at December 31, 2017. The freight charges were not included in either the inventory or in accounts payable at December 31, 2017.
Prepare a schedule of adjustments as of December 31, 2017, to the initial amounts per Pearl's accounting records