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The board of directors of Ichiro Corporation is considering whether or not it should instruct the accounting department to shift from a first-in, first out (FIFO) basis of pricing inventories to a last-in, first-out (LIFO) basis. The following information is available.

Sales 21,000 units @ \(50

Inventory, January 1 6,000 units @ 20

Purchases 6,000 units @ 22

10,000 units @ 25

7,000 units @ 30

Inventory, December 31 8,000 units @ ?

Operating expenses \)200,000

Instructions

Prepare a condensed income statement for the year on both bases for comparative purposes.

Short Answer

Expert verified

The net income under the FIFO method is higher by $71,000.

Step by step solution

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Ending inventory and Income statement under FIFO

Value of ending inventory

Units

Cost per unit

Amount

7000

$30

$210,000

1000

$25

$25,000

Total

8,000

$235,000

Endinginventoryperunitcost=EndinginventoryvalueEndinginventoryunits=235,0008,000=29.375

Condensed Income Statement

Particular

Amount

Sales

$1,050,000

Cost of goods sold:

Opening Stock

$120,000

Add: Purchases

$592,000

Less: Closing stock

$235,000

$477,000

Gross Profit

$573,000

Less: Operating Expenses

$200,000

Net Income

$373,000

02

Ending inventory and Income Statement under LIFO

Value of ending inventory

Units

Cost per unit

Amount

6000

$20

$120,000

2000

$22

$44,000

Total

8,000

$164,000

Endinginventoryperunitcost=EndinginventoryvalueEndinginventoryunits=164,0008,000=20.5

Condensed Income Statement

Particular

Amount

Sales

$1,050,000

Cost of goods sold:

Opening Stock

$120,000

Add: Purchases

$592,000

Less: Closing stock

$164,000

$548,000

Gross Profit

$502,000

Less: Operating Expenses

$200,000

Net Income

$302,000

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Dimitri 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 Dimitri鈥檚 plant, at cost, on December 31, 2017) \(1,520,000

Accounts payable at December 31, 2017 1,200,000

Net sales (sales less sales returns) 8,150,000

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 \)31,000 and were billed at \(40,000. The shipment was on Dimitri鈥檚 loading dock waiting to be picked up by the common carrier.

2. Goods were in transit from a vendor to Dimitri on December 31, 2017. The invoice cost was \)76,000, and the goods were shipped f.o.b. shipping point on December 29, 2017.

3. Work in process inventory costing \(30,000 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 \)32,000 were inspected and returned to inventory. Credit memos totaling \(47,000 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 \)26,000. Upon notification of receipt by the customer on January 2, 2018, Dimitri issued a sales invoice for \(42,000.

6. Goods, with an invoice cost of \)27,000, 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 \(56,000 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 \)8,000 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.

Instructions

Using the format shown below, prepare a schedule of adjustments as of December 31, 2017, to the initial amounts per Dimitri鈥檚 accounting records. Show separately the effect, if any, of each of the eight transactions on the December 31, 2017, amounts. If the transactions would have no effect on the initial amount shown, enter NONE.

Accounts Net

Inventory Payable Sales

Initial amounts \(1,520,000 \)1,200,000 \(8,150,000

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Total adjustments

Adjusted amounts \) \( \)

Shania Twain Company was formed on December 1, 2016. The following information is available from Twain鈥檚 inventory records for Product BAP.

Units Unit Cost

January 1, 2017 (beginning inventory) 600 $ 8.00

Purchases:

January 5, 2017 1,200 9.00

January 25, 2017 1,300 10.00

February 16, 2017 800 11.00

March 26, 2017 600 12.00

A physical inventory on March 31, 2017, shows 1,600 units on hand.

Instructions

Prepare schedules to compute the ending inventory at March 31, 2017, under each of the following inventory methods.

(a) FIFO (b) LIFO. (c) Weighted-average (round unit costs to two decimal places).

What is a repurchase agreement (product financing) arrangement? How should a product repurchase agreement be reported in the financial statements?

You are asked to travel to Milwaukee to observe and verify the inventory of the Milwaukee branch of one of your clients. You arrive on Thursday, December 30, and find that the inventory procedures have justbeen started. You spot a railway car on the sidetrack at the unloading door and ask the warehouse superintendent, Buck Rogers,how he plans to inventory the contents of the car. He responds, 鈥淲e are not going to include the contents in the inventory.鈥

Later in the day, you ask the bookkeeper for the invoice on the carload and the related freight bill. The invoice lists the variousitems, prices, and extensions of the goods in the car. You note that the carload was shipped December 24 from Albuquerque,f.o.b. Albuquerque, and that the total invoice price of the goods in the car was \(35,300. The freight bill called for a payment of\)1,500. Terms were net 30 days. The bookkeeper affirms the fact that this invoice is to be held for recording in January.

Instructions

(a) Does your client have a liability that should be recorded at December 31? Discuss.

(b) Prepare a journal entry(ies), if required, to reflect any accounting adjustment required. Assume a perpetual inventory

system is used by your client.

(c) For what possible reason(s) might your client wish to postpone recording the transaction?

Question:Presented below is a list of items that may or may not be reported as inventory in a company鈥檚 December 31 balance sheet.

1. Goods out on consignment at another company鈥檚 store.

2. Goods sold on an installment basis (bad debts can be reasonably estimated).

3. Goods purchased f.o.b. shipping point that are in transit at December 31.

4. Goods purchased f.o.b. destination that are in transit at December 31.

5. Goods sold to another company, for which our company has signed an agreement to repurchase at a set price that coversall costs related to the inventory.

6. Goods sold where large returns are predictable.

7. Goods sold f.o.b. shipping point that are in transit at December 31.

8. Freight charges on goods purchased.

9. Interest costs incurred for inventories that are routinely manufactured.

10. Costs incurred to advertise goods held for resale.

11. Materials on hand not yet placed into production by a manufacturing firm.

12. Office supplies.

13. Raw materials on which a manufacturing firm has started production but which are not completely processed.

14. Factory supplies.

15. Goods held on consignment from another company.

16. Costs identified with units completed by a manufacturing firm but not yet sold.

17. Goods sold f.o.b. destination that are in transit at December 31.

18. Short-term investments in stocks and bonds that will be resold in the near future.

Instructions

Indicate which of these items would typically be reported as inventory in the financial statements. If an item should not bereported as inventory, indicate how it should be reported in the financial statements.

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