Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134728520
Author: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 50BP
FIFO, LIFO, and average cost (Learning Objectives 2 & 3) 15-20 min.
Monitor Industries, Inc., completed the following inventory transactions during the month of March:
| Date | Item | Quantity | Unit Cost |
| Mar 1 | Balance | 25 | $85 |
| 4 | Purchase | 60 | $88 |
| 12 | Sale | 75 | |
| 22 | Purchase | 28 | $90 |
| 31 | Sale | 20 |
Requirements
- 1. Without resorting to calculations, determine which inventory method will result in Monitor Industries, Inc., paying the lowest income taxes.
- 2. Prepare a perpetual inventory record using FIFO.
- 3. Prepare a perpetual inventory record using LIFO.
- 4. Prepare a perpetual inventory record using average cost. Round the average cost per unit to the nearest cent and all other amounts to the nearest dollar.
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FIFO, LIFO, and weighted-average
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