Principles of Financial Accounting.
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Chapter 6, Problem 1BTN
ETHICS CHALLENGE
Golf Challenge Corp. is a retail sports store carrying golf apparel and equipment. The store is at the end of its second year of operation and is struggling. A major problem is that its cost of inventory has continually increased in the past two years. In the first year of operations, the store assigned inventory costs using LIFO. A loan agreement the store has with its bank, its prime source of financing, requires the store to maintain a certain profit margin and
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- 1. How does Golf Challenge’s use of FIFO improve its net profit margin and current ratio?
- 2. Is the action by Golf Challenge’s owner ethical? Explain.
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Karen's retail store sells apparel. The store is in the third year of operations and is struggling financially. Part of the problem is that the cost of inventory has increased. The store assigns inventory costs using LIFO. A loan agreement with the bank requires the store to maintain a certain profit margin. Karen is reviewing the current year financial statements and sees that results are not favorable. The only way that the store can meet the required profit margin is to change inventory costing from LIFO to FIFO. Karen redoes the financial statements using FIFO and submits them to the bank without disclosing the change. How is it that FIFO improves the profit of the store? Did Karen make a good ethical choice by changing to FIFO? Why or why not? What alternatives did Karen have in this situation?
Golf Challenge Corp. is a retail sports store carrying golf apparel and equipment. The store is at the end of its second year of operation and is struggling. A major problem is that its cost of inventory has continually increased in the past two years. In the first year of operations, the store assigned inventory costs using LIFO. A loan agreement the store has with its bank, its prime source of financing, requires the store to maintain a certain profit margin and current ratio. The store’s owner is currently looking over Golf Challenge’s preliminary financial statements for its second year. The numbers are not favorable. The only way the store can meet the financial ratios agreed on with the bank is to change from LIFO to FIFO. The store originally decided on LIFO because of its tax advantages. The owner recalculates ending inventory using FIFO and submits those numbers and statements to the loan officer for the required bank review. The owner thankfully reflects on the available…
Ethics Case Electronics, Inc. is a high-volume, wholesale merchandising company. Most of its inventory turns over four or five times a year. The company has had 50 units of a particular brand of computers on hand for over a year. These computers have not sold and probably will not sell unless they are discounted 60 to 70%. The accountant is carrying them on the books at cost and intends to recognize the loss when they are sold. This way, she can avoid a significant write-down in inventory on the current year’s financial statements. 1. Is the accountant correct in her treatment of the inventory? Why or why not?
2. If the computers cost $1,000 each and their market value is 40% of their cost, journalize the entry necessary for the write-down.
3. In groups of three or four, make a list of reasons why inventories of electronic equipment might have to be written down.
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Principles of Financial Accounting.
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