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Chapter 9: Q11Q (page 474)
Question:What are the major uses of the gross profit method?
The major uses of the gross profit method are as follows:
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Barrick Gold Corporation, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, is the world’s most profitable and largest gold mining company outside South Africa. Part of the key to Barrick’s success has been due to its ability to maintain cash flow while improving production and increasing its reserves of gold-containing property. In the most recent year, Barrick achieved record growth in cash flow, production, and reserves. The company maintains an aggressive policy of developing previously identified target areas that have the possibility of a large amount of gold ore, and that have not been previously developed. Barrick limits the riskiness of this development by choosing only properties that are located in politically stable regions, and by the company’s use of internally generated funds, rather than debt, to finance growth. Using Your Judgment 491 492 Chapter 9 Inventories: Additional Valuation Issues Barrick’s inventories are as follows. Barrick Gold Corporation Inventories (in millions, US dollars) Current Gold in process \(133 Mine operating supplies 82 \)215 Non-current (included in Other assets) Ore in stockpiles \(65 Instructions (a) Why do you think that there are no finished goods inventories? Why do you think the raw material, ore in stockpiles, is considered to be a non-current asset? (b) Consider that Barrick has no finished goods inventories. What journal entries are made to record a sale? (c) Suppose that gold bullion that cost \)1.8 million to produce was sold for $2.4 million. The journal entry was made to record the sale, but no entry was made to remove the gold from the gold in process inventory. How would this error affect the following? Balance Sheet Income Statement Inventory ? Cost of goods sold ? Retained earnings ? Net income ? Accounts payable ? Working capital ? Current ratio ?
A fire destroys all of the merchandise of Assante Company on February 10, 2017. Presented below is information compiled up to the date of the fire. Inventory, January 1, 2017 $ 400,000 Sales revenue to February 10, 2017 1,950,000 Purchases to February 10, 2017 1,140,000 Freight-in to February 10, 2017 60,000 Rate of gross profit on selling price 40% What is the approximate inventory on February 10, 2017?
Question:In some instances, accounting principles require a departure from valuing inventories at cost alone. Determine the proper unit inventory price in the following cases, under the lower-of-cost-or-market rule. Cases 1 2 3 4 5 Cost \(15.90 \)16.10 \(15.90 \)15.90 $15.90 Net realizable value 14.50 19.20 15.20 10.40 16.40 Net realizable value less normal profit 12.80 17.60 13.75 8.80 14.80 Market (replacement cost) 14.80 17.20 12.80 9.70 16.80
Question:Under what circumstances is relative sales value an appropriate basis for determining the price assigned to inventory?
Question:Refer to the data in IFRS9-8 for Keyser’s Fleece Inc. Prepare the journal entries for (a) the wool harvested in the first six months of 2017, and (b) the wool harvested that is sold for $10,500 in July 2017.
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