Elizabeth Egbert owns a galvanizing plant. Customers bring in their fabricated steel products (like light poles, towers, trailers, etc.), and Egbert dips them into a heated vat of molten zinc. The zinc bonds to the metal and produces a highly durable corrosion resistant product.
Egbert's primary inventory is molten zinc purchased from suppliers in large blocks of solid material. These blocks are immersed in the heated vat and will melt together with the zinc already in the pool. Egbert generally keeps the vat relatively full, and it is never allowed to cool.
Egbert started the year 20X8 with 500,000 pounds of zinc in the pool. During the year Egbert purchased 2,800,000 pounds of zinc. At year's end, the pool contained 520,000 pounds of zinc.
(a) How much zinc was used during 20X8?
(b) Accountants frequently refer to "goods available for sale." Is this concept the same as ending inventory? How much zinc, in pounds, was "available for sale?"
(c) If the beginning inventory cost $1.25 per pound, and purchases during 20X8 cost $1.50 per pound, how much is the "cost of goods available for sale"?
(d) In preparing financial statements for 20X8, to what financial statement elements will the amount you calculated in part (c) be allocated?
(e) If Egbert uses FIFO, how much should be attributed to ending inventory and how much to cost of goods sold?
(f) If Egbert uses LIFO, how much should be attributed to ending inventory and how much to cost of goods sold?
(g) What will be the difference in profitability between choosing the FIFO and LIFO methods? Does is seem reasonable the choice of accounting method can change the reported profit?
******* Partial information follows about net sales, net purchases, cost of goods sold, gross profit, total expenses, and net income for Slabaugh Company. Compute the missing values.
NET SALES
Sales $ 800,000
Sales discounts 20,000
Sales returns and allowances 45,000
Net sales 735,000
NET PURCHASES
Purchases $ 400,000
Freight-in 20,000
Purchase discounts 4,000
Purchase returns and allowances 2,500
Net purchases 413,500
COST OF GOODS SOLD
Beginning inventory $ 85,400
Ending inventory 74,500
Cost of goods sold 424,400
GROSS PROFIT
Gross profit 310,600
TOTAL EXPENSES
Rent $ 36,000
Salaries 145,700
Utilities 12,300
Freight-out 24,100
Other 24,100
Total expenses 242,200
NET INCOME
Net income 68,400
******** Dine-Corp International publishes ratings and reviews of the world's finest restaurants. Following are facts you need to prepare Dine-Corp's March bank reconciliation:
Balance per company records at end of month $ 72,644.12
Bank service charge for the month 44.00
NSF check returned with bank statement 1,440.66
Note collected by the bank during the month 45,000.00
Outstanding checks at month end 31,553.57
Interest on note collected during the month 4,500.00
Balance per bank at end of month 144,223.99
Deposit in transit at month end 7,989.04
