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Which statement is NOT valid in relation to the LCM rule for inventories?
Statement 1: Inventories are usually written down to net realizable value on an item-by-
item basis.
Statement 2: It is appropriate to write down inventories based on a classification of
inventory, for example, finished goods or all inventories in a particular industry or
geographical segment.
Statement 2 only
Statement 1 only
Both statements
Neither statements
The original cost of an inventory item is below both replacement cost and net realizable
value. The net realizable value less normal profit margin is below the original cost. Under
LCNRVM method, the inventory item should be valued at
Original cost
Replacement cost
Net realizable value
Net realizable value less normal profit margin
The cost of inventories may not be recoverable under all of the following conditions,
EXCEPT
Theoretically, freight and warehousing costs incurred in the transfer of consigned goods
from the consignor to the consignee should be considered
All of the following costs should be charged against revenue in the period, EXCEPT
Costs of normal shrinkage and scrap incurred for the manufacture of a product in ending
inventory.
Manufacturing overhead costs for a product manufactured and sold in the same accounting
period.
Costs which will not benefit any future period.
Costs from idle manufacturing capacity resulting from an unexpected plant shutdown.
The use of a discounts lost account implies that the recorded cost of a purchased inventory
item is its
Invoice price less the purchase discount allowable whatever taken or not
Invoice price
Invoice price plus the purchase discount lost
Invoice price less the purchase discount taken
The use of purchase discounts account implies that the recorded cost of a purchased
inventory item is its
Invoice price
Invoice price plus any purchase discount lost
Invoice price less the purchase discount taken
Invoice price less the purchase discount allowable whether taken or not
The fact should be disclosed but the amount of current assets should not be affected
The value of the portion pledged should be subtracted from the debt
An equal amount of retained earnings should be appropriated
The cost of the pledged inventory should be transferred from current to noncurrent asset
If a material amount of inventory has been ordered through a formal purchase contract at
balance sheet date for future delivery at firm prices
Which of the following items should be included in a company’s inventory in the statement
of financial position?
The costs of conversion of inventories include costs directly related to the units of production
such as direct labor, and a systematic allocation of variable production overhead.
Inventories should be measured at the lower of cost and net realizable value.
The cost of inventories should comprise all costs of purchase, costs of conversion and other costs
incurred in bringing the inventories to their present location and condition.
The cost of inventories of a service provider consists primarily of labor and other costs of
personnel directly engaged in providing the service, including supervising personnel and
attributable overhead.
The cost of inventories that are not ordinarily interchangeable and goods or services
produced and segregated for specific projects should be assigned by using
Specific identification
LIFO
FIFO
Average method
Normal shrinkage and scrap incurred for the manufacture of a product in ending inventory.
Storage costs
Selling costs
Foreign exchange differences which arises directly on the recent acquisition of inventories
invoiced in a foreign currency.
Estimated selling price less estimated cost to complete and estimated cost to sell
Current replacement cost
Estimated selling price
Estimated selling price less estimated cost to complete
I and II only
II only
II and III only
I, II and III
Which one of the following inventory costing method lends itself most to manipulation of
reported net income among periods.
FIFO periodic
LIFO perpetual
FIFO perpetual
LIFO periodic
During periods of arising prices, when the FIFO inventory cost flow method is used, a
perpetual inventory system would
Generally, which inventory costing method approximates most closely the current cost for
each of the following:
To produce an inventory valuation which approximates the lower of cost or market using
the conservative retail inventory method, the computation of the ratio of cost to retail
should
The gross margin method of estimating ending inventory may be used for all of the
following except
The gross profit percentage applicable to goods in the ending inventory is different from the
percentage applicable to goods sold during the period.
A portion of the inventory is destroyed.
There is substantial increase in inventory during the year.
There is no beginning inventory because it is the first year of operation.
B- Bonus Round
C- Inventory Estimation
You are provided with the following for the quarter ended March 31, 2021: Raw materials
1/1/2021 – 10,000 units @P6.00; 1st Purchases – 8,500 units @P7.00; 2nd Purchases – 11,000
units @P7.50. Transferred 21,500 units of raw materials to work in process: Work in process
1/1/2021 – 5,600 units @P13.50; Direct labor – P250,000; Manufacturing over head – P325,000;
Work in process 3/31/202 – 4,200 units @P13.75. If the company uses the FIFO method for
valuing raw materials inventories, compute for the cost of goods manufactured for the quarter
ended Mar. 31 2021
699,150
734,850
717,000
746,850
You are provided with the following for the year ended December 31, 2021: Materials –
1,400,000; Advance for materials ordered – 200,000; Goods in process – 650,000; Unexpired
insurance on inventories – 60,000; Advertising catalogs and shipping boxes – 150,000; Finished
goods in factory – 2,000,000; Finished goods in company-owned retails store, including 50%
profit on cost – 750,000; Finished goods in hands on consignees including 40% profit on sales –
400,000; Finished goods in transit to customers, shipped FOB destination, at cost – 250,000;
Finished goods out on approval, at cost – 100,000; Unsalable finished goods, at cost – 50,000;
Office supplies – 40,000; Materials in transit shipped FOB shipping point, excluding freight of
P30,000 – 330,000; Goods held on consignment, at sales price, cost P150,000 – 200,000. What is
the correct amount of inventories?
5,500,000
5,610,000
5,375,000
5,450,000
A certain company uses FIFO method to measure its inventory. You are provided with the
following information on its ending inventory that costs 9,500,000 on December 31, 2021:
Estimated selling price – 14,000,000; Estimated cost to complete and cost of disposal –
5,000,000; Normal profit margin – 2,000,000; Current replacement cost – 8,000,000. At
December 31, 2021, the company should report inventory at
9,000,000
9,500,000
8,000,000
7,000,000
A company sells only one product that is purchased from numerous suppliers. You are provided
with the following for the year ended December 31, 2021: Sales (100,000 units) – 15,000,000;
Sales discount – 1,000,000; Purchases – 9,300,000; Purchase discount – 400,000; Freight in –
100,000; Freight out – 200,000
Details of the company’s purchases in 2021 follow: 30,000 units for a total of 1,950,000 on
March 31, 40,000 units for a total of 2,800,000 on June 30, 50,000 units for a total of 3,750,000
on September 30, and 10,000 units for a total of 800,000 on December 31. The inventory on
January 1 contains 20,000 units with a total cost of 1,200,000.
The company’s accounting policy is to report inventory in its financial statements at the lower of
cost or market, applied to total inventory. Cost is determined under the first-in, first-out method.
The company has determined that, at December 31, 2021, the replacement cost of its inventory
was P70 per unit and the net realizable value was P72 per unit. The normal profit margin is P10
per unit.
What should be reported as cost of goods sold for the year 2021?
6,400,000
6,700,000
6,600,000
7,100,000
You are provided with the following by a certain company for the quarter ended March 31, 2021:
Total merchandise purchased January through March 15, recorded at net – 4,900,000;
Merchandise inventory at December 31, 2020, at selling price – 1,500,000
All purchases done on credit and no payments have been made since the inception of the
company. All inventories are marked to sell at 50% above invoice cost before discounts of 2/10,
n/30. No sales were made in 2021.
How much cash is required to eliminate the current balance in accounts payable?
6,000,000
6,400,000
5,900,000
5,750,000
You are provided with the following by a certain company for the year ended December 31,
2021: Inventory shipped on consignment to Company X - 600,000; Freight paid by your
company - 50,000; Inventory received on consignment from Company Y - 800,000; Freight paid
Company Y - 50,000. None of these consigned goods were sold. What should be reported as
consigned inventory in your company’s statement of financial position as of December 31, 2021?
650,000
600,000
1,450,000
1,500,000
You are provided with the following by a certain company for the year ended December 31,
2021: Inventory, January 1 (at cost) – 2,000,000; Purchases (at cost) – 10,600,000; Inventory,
January 1 (at retail) –3,000,000; Purchases (at retail) –14,000,000; Net markups (at retail) –
1,600,000; Net markdowns (at retail) –600,000; Sales (at retail) –12,000,000; Estimated normal
shoplifting losses (at retail) – 400,000; Estimated normal shrinkage is 5% of sales. What amount
should as cost of goods sold under the average cost retail method?
9,100,000
8,400,000
8,680,000
7,700,000
You are provided with the following by a certain company for the year ended December 31,
2021: Inventory, January 1 –10,000,000; Purchases –40,000,000; Writeoff of obsolete inventory
–5,000,000; Inventory, December 31 – 3,000,000. What amount should as cost of goods sold?
42,000,000
47,000,000
45,000,000
50,000,000
You are provided with the following by a certain company for the year ended December 31,
2021:Decrease in raw materials inventory – 1,000,000; Increase in goods in process inventory –
3,000,000; Increase in finished goods inventory – 2,000,000; Raw materials purchased –
40,000,000; Direct labor payroll – 10,000,000; Factory overhead – 6,000,000; Freight out –
4,000,000; Freight in – 5,000,000. What amount should as cost of goods sold?
57,000,000
59,000,000
61,000,000
63,000,000
The company uses the retail inventory method to approximate the lower of cost or market. The
following items at cost is available to you for the current year: Beginning inventory (at cost) –
1,300,000; Purchases (at cost) –18,000,000; Freight in (at cost) –400,000; Purchase returns (at
cost) –600,000; Purchase allowances (at cost) –300,000; Transfer in from preceding department
(at cost) –400,000. The following items at retail is also made available to you: Beginning
inventory (at retail) –2,600,000; Purchases (at retail) –29,200,000; Purchase returns (at retail) –
1,000,000; Transfer in from preceding department - 600,000; Net markups(at retail) –600,000;
Net markdowns(at retail) –2,000,000; Sales(at retail) –24,400,000; Sales discounts(at retail) –
200,000; Employee discounts(at retail) –600,000. What should be reported as the estimated cost
of inventory at the end of the current year?
3,000,000
3,120,000
3,200,000
3,840,000
The work-in-process inventory of a company were completely destroyed by fire on June 1, 2021.
The following were established: Raw materials, 1/1/2021 – 60,000, Work-in-process, 1/1/2021 –
200,000, Finished goods, 1/1/2021 – 280,000, Raw materials, 6/1/2021 – 120,000, Finished
goods, 6/1/2021 – 240,000.
Other relevant information were determined also: Sales - 546,750; Raw material purchases -
200,000 plus freight of 30,000; Factory Overhead - 256,000; Direct Labor costs – 62.5% of
overhead. Gross profit rate is 35%.
265,000
314,612
185,000
366,000
You are provided with the following by a company from their 2021 accounting records:
Inventory, 1/1/2021 – 6,000,000, Purchases– 20,000,000, Sales – 30,000,000
On December 31, 2021, a physical inventory count resulted to an ending inventory of 4,500,000.
A constant 30% gross profit rate was maintained in recent years. However, the head of
warehouse suspects that some inventory may have been taken by one of the employees.
500,000
5,000,000
4,500,000
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