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Chapter 9: Q9Q (page 474)
Question:Under what circumstances is relative sales value an appropriate basis for determining the price assigned to inventory?
The relative sales value basis is used in the lump-sum purchase scenario.
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The inventory of Oheto Company on December 31, 2017, consists of the following items. Part Quantity Cost per Unit Net Realizable Value 110 600 \( 95 \)100 111 1,000 60 52 112 500 80 76 113 200 170 180 120 400 205 208 121a 1,600 16 1 122 300 240 235 a Part No. 121 is obsolete and has a realizable value of $1 each as scrap. Instructions 1. Determine the inventory as of December 31, 2017, by the LCNRV method, applying this method to each item. 2. Determine the inventory by the LCNRV method, applying the method to the total of the inventory.
Remmers Company manufactures desks. Most of the company’s desks are standard models and are sold on the basis of catalog prices. At December 31, 2017, the following finished desks (10 desks in each category) appear in the company’s inventory. Finished Desks A B C D 2017 catalog selling price \(45 \)48 \(90 \)105 FIFO cost per inventory list 12/31/17 47 45 83 96 Estimated cost to complete and sell 5 11 26 20 2018 catalog selling price 50 54 90 120 The 2017 catalog was in effect through November 2017, and the 2018 catalog is effective as of December 1; catalog prices are net of the usual discounts.
Malone Company determined its ending inventory at cost and at LCNRV at December 31, 2017, December 31, 2018, and December 31, 2019, as shown below. Cost NRV 12/31/17 \(650,000 \)650,000 12/31/18 780,000 712,000 12/31/19 905,000 830,000 Instructions (a) Prepare the journal entries required at December 31, 2018, and at December 31, 2019, assuming that a perpetual inventory system and the cost-of-goods-sold method of adjusting to LCNRV is used. (b) Prepare the journal entries required at December 31, 2018, and at December 31, 2019, assuming that a perpetual inventory is recorded at cost and reduced to LCNRV using the loss method.
LaTour Inc. is based in France and prepares its financial statements in accordance with IFRS. In 2017, it reported cost of goods sold of \(578 million and average inventory of \)154 million. Briefly discuss how analysis of LaTour’s inventory turnover (and comparisons to a company using GAAP) might be affected by differences in inventory accounting between IFRS and GAAP.
Kemper Company signed a long-term noncancelable purchase commitment with a major supplier to purchase raw materials in 2018 at a cost of \(1,000,000. At December 31, 2017, the raw materials to be purchased have a market value of \)950,000. Prepare any necessary December 31, 2017, entry.
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