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Reporting Purchase Transactions between Wholesale and Retail Merchandisers Using Perpetual Inventory Systems
The transactions listed below are typical of those involving Southern Sporting Goods and Sports R Us, Southern Sporting Goods is a wholesale merchandiser and Sports R Us is a retail merchandiser. Assume all sales of merchandise from Southern Sporting Goods to Sports R Us are made with terms 2/10, n/30, and that the two companies use perpetual inventory systems. Assume the following transactions between the two companies occurred in the order listed during the year ended December 31.
- a. Southern Sporting Goods sold merchandise to Sports R Us at a selling price of $125,000. The merchandise had cost Southern Sporting Goods $94,000.
- b. Two days later, Sports R Us complained to Southern Sporting Goods that some of the merchandise differed from what Sports R Us had ordered. Southern Sporting Goods agreed to give an allowance of $3,000 to Sports R Us.
- c. Just three days later Spoils R Us paid Southern Sporting Goods, which settled all amounts owed.
Required:
- 1. Indicate the effect (direction and amount) of each transaction on the Inventory balance of Sports R Us.
- 2. Prepare the
journal entries that Sports R Us would record and show any computations.
PB6-2 Reporting Sales Transactions between Wholesale and Retail Merchandisers Using Perpetual Inventory Systems
Use the information in PB6-1 to complete the following requirements.
Required:
- 1. For each of the events (a) through (c), indicate the amount and direction of the effect (+ for increase, − for decrease, and NE for no effect) on Southern Sporting Goods in terms of the following items.
- 2. Which of the above items are likely to be reported on Southern Sporting Goods’ external financial statements, and which items will be combined “behind the scenes”?
- 3. Prepare the journal entries that Southern Sporting Goods would record and show any computations.
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