As of January 1, 2020, Aristotle Inc. adopted the retail method of accounting for its merchandise inventory. To prepare the store’s financial statements at June 30, 2020, you obtain the following data.      Cost    Selling Price Inventory, January 1 $ 30,000 $ 43,000    Markdowns   10,500    Markups   9,200    Markdown cancellations   6,500    Markup cancellations   3,200    Purchases 104,800 155,000    Sales revenue   154,000    Purchase returns 2,800 4,000    Sales returns and allowances   8,000    Instructions a.    Prepare a schedule to compute Aristotle’s June 30, 2020, inventory under the conventional retail method of accounting for inventories. b.    Without prejudice to your solution to part (a), assume that you computed the June 30, 2020, inventory to be $59,400 at retail and the ratio of cost to retail to be 70%. The general price level has increased from 100 at January 1, 2020, to 108 at June 30, 2020. Prepare a schedule to compute the June 30, 2020, inventory at the June 30 price level under the dollar-value LIFO retail method.

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As of January 1, 2020, Aristotle Inc. adopted the retail method of accounting for its merchandise inventory.

To prepare the store’s financial statements at June 30, 2020, you obtain the following data.

     Cost    Selling Price
Inventory, January 1 $ 30,000 $ 43,000   
Markdowns   10,500   
Markups   9,200   
Markdown cancellations   6,500   
Markup cancellations   3,200   
Purchases 104,800 155,000   
Sales revenue   154,000   
Purchase returns 2,800 4,000   
Sales returns and allowances   8,000   

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a.    Prepare a schedule to compute Aristotle’s June 30, 2020, inventory under the conventional retail method of accounting for inventories.

b.    Without prejudice to your solution to part (a), assume that you computed the June 30, 2020, inventory to be $59,400 at retail and the ratio of cost to retail to be 70%. The general price level has increased from 100 at January 1, 2020, to 108 at June 30, 2020. Prepare a schedule to compute the June 30, 2020, inventory at the June 30 price level under the dollar-value LIFO retail method.

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