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Chapter 9: Question E9-26 (page 481)

You assemble the following information for Seneca Department Store, which computes its inventory under the dollar-value LIFO method. Cost Retail Inventory on January 1, 2017 \(216,000 \)300,000 Purchases 364,800 480,000 Increase in price level for year 9% Instructions Compute the cost of the inventory on December 31, 2017, assuming that the inventory at retail is (a) \(294,300 and (b) \)365,150.

Short Answer

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  1. The cost of inventory equals $194,400.
  2. The cost of inventory equals $248,246.

Step by step solution

01

Calculation of ending inventory at base year retail prices

a. The cost of ending inventory at base year retail price is calculated as follows:

EndingInventoryatBaseYearRetailPrice=EndingInventoryatRetail100%+PercentageIncrease=$294,300100%+9%=$270,000

02

Calculation of the cost to retail ratio of beginning inventory

The cost-to-retail ratio of beginning inventory is calculated as follows:

CosttoRetailRatioofBeginningInventory=BeginningInventoryatCostBeginningInventoryatRetail=$216,000$300,000=72%

03

Calculation of the cost to retail ratio of total inventory excluding beginning inventory

The cost-to-retail ratio of total inventory excluding beginning inventory is calculated as follows:
Cost‐to‐RetailRatio=TotalInventoryExcludingBeginningInventoryatCostTotalInventoryExcludingBeginningInventoryatRetail=$364,800$480,000=76%

04

Calculation of ending inventory under dollar-value-LIFO retail method

  1. Ending inventory is calculated as follows:
Ending Inventory at Base Year Retail Prices


Layers at Base Year Retail Prices


Price Index (Percentage)

Cost-to-Retail (Percentage)

Ending Inventory at LIFO Cost

$270,000

2016

$270,000

x

100%

x

72%

=

$194,400

$194,400

05

Calculation of ending inventory at base year retail prices

The cost of ending inventory at base year retail price is calculated as follows:

EndingInventoryatBaseYearRetailPrice=EndingInventoryatRetail100%+PercentageIncrease=$365,150100%+9%=$335,000

06

Calculation of ending inventory under dollar-value-LIFO retail method

b. Ending inventory is calculated as follows:


Ending Inventory at Base Year Retail Prices
Layers at Base Year Retail Prices

Price Index (Percentage)

Cost-to-Retail (Percentage)

Ending Inventory at LIFO Cost

$335,000

2016

$270,000

x

100%

x

72%

=

$194,400

2017

65,000

x

109%

x

76%

=

53,846

$248,246

Thus, the value of inventory in (a) equals $194,400 and in (b) equals $248,246.

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