During January, a companythat uses a perpetual inventory system had beginning inventory,purchases, and sales as follows:
Units Unit cost
Beggininginventory 100 10
Jan 5purchased 40 12
Jan 10sold 60
Jan 15purchased 70 13
Jan 25sold 50
** The selling priceper unit is $20.
1. Using the perpetual inventory system, calculate the total cost ofgoods sold for January and cost of the company's January31st inventory for the following methods. Show all your work using the format used in thetext!
a) FIFO
b) LIFO
c) Weighted average
d) Prepare journal entries for the events listed in the questionusing the amounts calculated using in (a) FIFO method.
2. Using the periodic inventory system, calculate the cost of goodssold for January and cost of the company's January 31stinventory for the following methods. Showall your work using the format provided in the appendix of thechapter in the text!
a) FIFO
b) LIFO
c) Weighted average
3. A company made thefollowing purchases during the year:
Jan 10: 15 units @ 360each
Mar 25: 25 units @390each
April 25: 10 units @ 420each
July 30: 20 units @ 450each
Oct 10: 15 units @ 480each
On December 31, there were28 units in ending inventory. These 28 units consisted of 1 fromthe January 10 purchase, 2 from the March 15 purchase, 5 from theApril 25 purchase, 15 from the July 30 purchase, and 5 from theOctober 10 purchase. Using perpetual inventory system, calculatethe cost goods sold and ending inventory for the year using thespecific identification method. Show all your work using the format provided in the text!(Note: Answers do not differ using the periodic inventorysystem)
4. Monitor Company usesthe LIFO method for valuing its ending inventory. The followingfinancial statement information is available for its first year ofoperation:
Income Statement
For the year ended Dec31
Sales 50,0000
Cost of goodssold 23,000
Grossprofit 27,000
Expenses 13,000
Income beforetaxes 14,000
Monitor's ending inventoryusing the LIFO method was $8,200. Monitor's accountant determinedthat, had the company used FIFO, the ending inventory would havebeen $8,500.
a) Determine what the income beforetaxes would have been, had Monitor used the FIFO method ofinventory valuation instead of LIFO.
b) What would be the difference in income taxesbetween LIFO and FIFO, assuming a 30% tax rate?
c) If Monitor wanted to lower the amount of income taxes to be paid, whichmethod would it choose?