Harrison and Company is a leading retailer of casual apparel for men, women, and children. Assume that you are employed as a stock analyst and your boss has just completed a review of the new Harrison annual report. She provided you with her notes, but they are missing some information that you need. Her notes show that the ending inventory for Harrison in the current and previous years was $272,472,000 and $233,103,000, respectively. Net sales for the current year were $2,540,266,000. Cost of goods sold was $178,524,000. Income before taxes was $172,335,000. Required: Determine the amount of purchases for the year. (Hint: Use the cost of goods sold equation or the inventory T-account to solve for the needed value.)

Venus Company is a retailer of fine leather goods and prepares its financial statements on December 31 each year. The company's inventory balance at the beginning of the year (January 1) was $300,000. Venus Company purchased $250,000 of goods during January, and sales during January were $400,000. What is the balance that would appear in Venus Company's inventory account on February 1 assuming use of a periodic inventory system? Explain.

You are the senior accountant for a shoe wholesaler that uses the periodic inventory method. You have determined the following information from your company’s records, which you assume is correct: Inventory of $296,064 was on hand at the start of the year. Purchases for the year totalled $2,028,000. Of this, $1,694,400 was purchased on account; that is, accounts payable was credited for this amount at the time of the purchase. A year-end inventory count revealed inventory of $389,760 Required: b) Assume now that your company uses the perpetualmethod of inventory control, and that your records show that $1,857,990 of inventory (at cost) was sold during the year. What is the adjustment needed to correct the records, given the inventory count in item 3 above?

Zaheer Abbas, an auditor with Saeed CPAs, is performing a review of K Company’s inventory account. K Company did not have a good year and top management is under pressure to boost reported income. According to its records, the inventory balance at year-end was $37,000. However, the following information was not considered when determining that amount.1. Included in the company’s count were goods with a cost of $125,000 that the company is holding on consignment. The goods belong to S Corporation. 2. The physical count did not include goods purchased by K Company with a cost of $20,000 that were shipped FOB destination on December 28 and did not arrive at K Company’s warehouse until January 3. 3. Included in the inventory account was $8,500 of office supplies that were stored in the warehouse and were to be used by the company’s supervisors and managers during the coming year. 4. The company received an order on December 29 that was boxed and was sitting on the loading dock awaiting…

Sizemo Elektroniks sells semiconductors that are used in games and small toys. The company has been extremely successful in recent years, recording an increase in earnings each of the past six quarters. At the end of the current quarter, Jay Shulz, the company's staff accountant, calculated the ending inventory for the semiconductors and was surprised to find that the quantity of the Hayden X537 model had not changed during the quarter. Jay confirmed his calculation with the inventory control manager, who indicated that sales of the Hayden 537X had stopped when the Hayden 637X semiconductor was released early in the quarter. Jay researched the issue further and found that the Hayden 637X semiconductor has the same applications as the Hayden 537X, but has more computing power and a lower cost than the 537X. Jay emailed this information to Tina Vereen, the chief financial officer, and recommended that the company apply the lower-of-cost-or-market method to the Hayden 537X semiconductors…

Concord Corporation's retail store and warehouse closed for an entire weekend while the year-end inventory was counted. When the count was finished, the controller gathered all the count books and information from the clerical staff, completed the ending inventory calculations, and prepared the following partial income statement for the general manager for Monday morning: Sales Beginning inventory Purchases Total goods available for sale Less: Ending inventory Cost of goods sold Gross profit 642,000 untany 1,550,000 4 2,192,000 642,000 $ 2,741,000 The general manager called the controller into her office after quickly reviewing the preliminary statements. "You've made an error in the inventory," she stated. "My pricing all year has been carefully controlled to provide a gross profit of 35%, and I know the sales are correct." (a) How much should the ending inventory have been? 1,550,000 $1,191,000