
Principles of Cost Accounting
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Author: Edward J. Vanderbeck, Maria R. Mitchell
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2, Problem 11E
Renfro, Inc. was franchised on January 1, 2016. At the end of its third year of operations, December 31, 2018, management requested a study to determine what effect different materials inventory costing methods would have had on its reported net income over the three-year period.
The materials inventory account, using LIFO, FIFO, and weighted average, would have had the following ending balances:
- a. Assuming the same number of units in ending inventory at the end of each year, were material costs rising or falling from 2016 to 2018?
- b. Which costing method would show the highest net income for 2017?
- c. Which method would show the lowest net income for 2018?
- d. Which method would show the highest net income for the three years combined?
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