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Chapter 9. Inventory: Additional Issues. 1. Lower of Cost or NRV. Required by GAAP Inventory must be reported on financial statements at lower of cost or NRV Theory should not report inventory at a value higher than benefits to be received from selling it. 1a. Lower of Cost or NRV.
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Chapter 9 Inventory: Additional Issues
1. Lower of Cost or NRV • Required by GAAP • Inventory must be reported on financial statements at lower of cost or NRV • Theory • should not report inventory at a value higher than benefits to be received from selling it
1a. Lower of Cost or NRV • Definition of NRV • NRV = selling price – selling costs • e.g., amount you would net when item is sold • examples of selling costs: • completion costs • selling commissions • shipping costs
2. Change in Inventory Methods • Change in accounting estimate • account for prospectively • Change in accounting principle • account for retrospectively • Change in reporting entity • account for retrospectively • Change in inventory methods • change to any method except LIFO – retrospectively • change to LIFO – prospectively, because usually impossible to know old layers
3. Inventory Estimation Methods • Gross profit method • based on relationship between sales and gross profit • not acceptable for financial reporting or taxes • Retail method • used by large volume retailers • dollar based method – not unit based method • acceptable for financial reporting and taxes
4. Gross Profit Method • Based on assumptions that • gross profit is constant from period-to-period • sales mix of products is constant • Used to estimate inventory value
4a. Gross Profit Method • Example Sales $200 Cost of goods sold $120 Gross profit $ 80 • GP % = 80/200 = 40% • CGS% = 120/200 = 60% • GP% on sales = 80/200 = 40% • GP% on cost = 80/120 = 66⅔% GP on Sales = GP on Costs 1 + GP on Costs
4a. Gross Profit Method • ExampleA hurricane destroyed the entire inventory stored in a warehouse. The following information is available from the company’s records. Beginning inventory $220,000 Purchases $400,000 Sales $600,000 Historical gross profit rate 30% Required: Estimate the cost of the destroyed inventory.
4a. Gross Profit Method • Example — Solution Beginning inventory (from records) $220,000 Plus: Net purchases (from records) 400,000 Cost of goods available for sale 620,000 Less: Cost of goods sold: Net sales $600,000Less: Estimated gross profit of 30% (180,000) Estimated cost of goods sold (420,000) Estimated cost of inventory destroyed $200,000
5. Retail Method • Method is based on the pattern between the cost and retail value of the goods • Method requires: • total costs of goods purchased • total retail value of goods available for sale • total sales • Companies always keep 1 & 3 • with this method also must keep 2
5a. Retail Method • Basic method
5c. Retail Method • Retail terminology • Net markups and net markdowns
5b. Retail Method • Ratios – computed as: cost of goods available for sale retail value of goods available for sale • Based on how ratio computed, can be used to approximate following methods: • average – include everything • LCM – exclude markdowns (conventional retail method) • FIFO – exclude beginning inventory • LIFO – compute separate ratio for each layer
5e. Retail Method Avg. method
5f. Retail Method LCM method
5g. Retail Method FIFO method
5h. Retail Method • Example
6. Inventory Errors • Overstatement of ending inventory • Understates cost of goods sold • Overstates pretax income • Understatement of ending inventory • Overstates cost of goods sold • Understates pretax income • Overstatement of beginning inventory • Overstates cost of goods sold • Understates pretax income • Understatement of beginning inventory • Understates cost of goods sold • Overstates pretax income
6a. Effect of errors • Self-correcting errors • most errors correct themselves over time • e.g., inventory – this year’s ending inventory is next year’s beginning inventory • depreciable assets – over the life of the assets • Permanent errors • never will correct themselves • e.g., expensing land, recording wrong amount
6b. Effect of errors • Determining effect of errors • determine effect for all accounts involved • examples • ending inventory overstated • interest expense not accrued on N/P this year, next year principle and interest paid in full