Brad Essary owned a small company that sold garden equipment. The equipment was expensive, and a perpetual system was maintained for control purposes. Even so, lost, damaged, and stolen merchandise normally amounted to 5 percent of the inventory balance. On June 14, Essary's warehouse was destroyed by fire. Just prior to the fire, the accounting records contained a $154,500 balance in the Inventory account. However, inventory costing $11,100 had been sold and delivered to customers but had not been recorded in the books at the time of the fire. The fire did not affect the showroom, which contained inventory that cost $41,200. Required Estimate the amount of inventory destroyed by fire. Inventory destroyed by fire

A substantlal portlon of Inventory owned by Prentiss Sporting Goods was recently destroyed when the roof collapsed during a ralnstorm. Prentiss also lost some of Its accounting records. Prentiss must estimate the loss from the storm for Insurance reporting and financial statement purposes. Prentiss uses the perlodic Inventory system. The following accounting information was recovered from the damaged records. Beginning inventory $196, eee 398, e00 Purchases to date of storm Sales to date of storm бее, вее The value of undamaged Inventory counted was $102,676. Hıstorically, Prentiss' gross margin percentage has been approximately 22 percent of sales. Required Estimate the following: a. Gross margin in dollars. b. Cost of goods sold in dollars. c. Ending Inventory. d. Amount of lost Inventory. a. Gross margin b. Cost of goods sold C. Estimated ending inventory d. Inventory lost

Riverbed Inc.’s April 30 inventory was destroyed by the explosion of an underground oil tank. January 1 inventory was $322,000 and purchases for January through April totalled $790,000. Sales for the same period were $1.2 million. Riverbed 's normal gross profit percentage is 30%.Using the gross profit method, estimate the amount of Riverbed 's April 30 inventory that was destroyed. Estimated ending inventory destroyed in explosion $enter a dollar amount of the ending inventory

A fire completely destroyed the entire inventory of Printing Delight Co. on March 15, 20--. Fortunately, the books were not destroyed in the fire. The following information is taken from the books of Printing Delight Co. for the time period, January 1, 20-- through March 15, 20--: Beginning inventory, January 1, 20-- $45,000 Net purchases, January 1, through March 15, 20-- 252,000 Net sales, January 1, through March 15, 20-- 378,000 Normal gross profit percentage of sales 37% Required: 1. Estimate the cost of goods sold for the time period January 1 through March 15, 20--, using the gross profit method. Estimated cost of goods sold 66,350 x Feedback 2. Estimate the amount of merchandise inventory destroyed in the fire on March 15, 20--, using the gross profit method. Estimated inventory on March 15, 20-- 22,275 x Feedback