Requirements: How much are the ending inventory and cost of sales,respectively, under the average cost method? How much are the ending inventory and cost of sales,respectively, under the FIFO method?

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Thursday Co. is estimating the cost of its inventory at month-end. the accountant determined the following:

                                                                               cost               retail

inventory beg.                                                    $20,000         $ 75,000

Purchases                                                               110,600        110,600

Freight in                                                                 4,000

Purchase discounts                                                 1,000

Purchase returns                                                      10,400          17,200

Departamental Transfers- in                                     2,000           3,000

Departamental Thansfers-out                                  1,600            2,400

markups                                                                                         12,000

Markups cancellation                                                                      4,000

Markdowns                                                                                   24,000

Markdowns cancellations                                                              6,000

Additional information:

  • A loss of $10,000 was recognized during the period for damaged goods. The goods have a retail value of $14,000.
  • Gross sales for the period amounted to $ 87,600. Sales returns and discount amounted to $ 5,000 and $2,000, respectively. Employees discounts, treated as outright deduction to sael price, amounted to $1,000.
  • Normal spoilage of $400 was subsumed to cost of sales.

Requirements:

How much are the ending inventory and cost of sales,respectively, under the average cost method?

How much are the ending inventory and cost of sales,respectively, under the FIFO method?

 

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