a. Permits entities to avoid taking an annual physical d. Provides a method for inventory control and facilitates inventory. c. Hides costs from customers and employees. d. Provides a method for inventory control and facilitate determination of the periodic inventory.
a. Permits entities to avoid taking an annual physical d. Provides a method for inventory control and facilitates inventory. c. Hides costs from customers and employees. d. Provides a method for inventory control and facilitate determination of the periodic inventory.
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Transcribed Image Text:following in the calculation of the goods available for sale
2. To produce an inventory valuation which approximates
d. Provides a method for inventory control and facilitates
a. Permits entities to avoid taking an annual physical
1. An advantage of the retail inventory method is thet
inventory.
b. Yields a more accurate measurement of inventom.
Hides costs from customers and employees.
с.
a
determination of the periodic inventory.
2. To produce an inventory valuation which approximates
the lower of cost and NRV using the retail method, the
computation of the ratio of cost to retail should
a. Include markup but not markdown
b. Include markup and markdown
c. Ignore both markup and markdown
d. Include markdown but not markup
3. When the conventional retail inventory method is used,
markdowns are commonly ignored in the computation of
cost to retail ratio because
a. There may be no markdowns during the year.
b. This tends to give a better approximation of the lower
of average cost and net realizable value.
c. Markups are also ignored.
d. This tends to result in the showing of a normal protit
margin in a period when no markdown goods have
been sold.
4. The retail inventory method would include which of u
following in the calculation of the goods available for sae
at both cost and retail?
a. Freight in
b. Purchase return
c. Markup
d. Markdown

Transcribed Image Text:valuation at the lower of average cost and net realizable
Generally, accountants ignore net markups and net
include net markdowns in computing cost ratio.
9. An inventory method designed to approximate inventory
b. Generally, accountants exclude net markups and
The retail method results in a lower ending inventory if
With regard to the retail inventory method, which is the
5.
cost accurate statement?
markdowns in computing the cost ratio.
a.
a
C.
net markups are included but net markdowns are
excluded in computing the cost ratio.
A It is not adaptable to FIFO costing.
- The conventional retail method produces an ending
inventory that approximates
. Lower of average cost and net realizable value
h Lower of FIFO cost and net realizable value
. Lower of LIFO cost and net realizable value
d. Lower of cost and net realizable value
1. If the conservative retail inventory method is used, which
of the following calculations would include or exclude net
markdowns?
Cost ratio
Ending inventory at retail
Include
b.
a.
Include
Exclude
Exclude
Include
Еxclude
Include
с.
d.
Еxclude
8. Which of the following is not a reason why the retail
inventory method is used widely?
a. As a control measure in determining inventory
shortage
b. For insurance information
* To permit the computation of net income without a
physical count of inventory
4. To defer income tax liability
value is
a. Average retail method
b. FIFO retail
c. Conservative retail method
d. LIFO retail
10. The retail method is based on the assumption that
a. Final inventory and the total goods available for sale
contain the same proportion of high cost and low cost
ratio of goods.
b. Gross margin is the same each perio
c. Ratio of cost to retail changes at a constant rate.
d. Proportions of markup and markdown are the same.
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