Financial Accounting: The Impact on Decision Makers
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ISBN: 9781305654174
Author: Gary A. Porter, Curtis L. Norton
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Comparing Inventory Systems
Your company uses a perpetual inventory system to control its operations. They only check inventory once every six months. At the 6-month physical count, an employee notices several inventory items missing and many damaged units. In the company records, it shows an inventory balance of $300,000. The actual physical count values inventory at $200,000. This is a significant difference in valuation and has jeopardized the future of the company. As a manager, how might you avoid this large discrepancy in the future? Would a change in inventory systems benefit the company? Are you constrained by any resources?
Which of the following would best explain an decrease in the company's inventory turnover?
A. Due to problems with obsolescent
inventory last year, the company
wrote off a large amount of its
inventory at the beginning of the
period
B. The company installed a new
inventory management system
allowing more efficient inventory
management
C. The company installed a new
inventory management system but
experienced some operational
difficulties resulting in duplicate
orders being placed with suppliers
A company has several branch operations that sell merchandise transferred from the home office. This inventory at billed price of 20 percent more than cost. In producing financial statements for the company as a whole, what happens at the end of the year?A. The unrealized gain on any remaining inventory is eliminated for financial reporting purposes.B. The gain remains as reported since the amount would be immaterial.C. Any remaining gain is reported as a contra balance to the Purchase account.D. Any remaining is reported as a contra balance to the Branch account.
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