In: Accounting
Smart Company prepared its annual financial statements dated
December 31, 2020. The company applies the FIFO inventory costing
method; however, the company neglected to apply the LC&NRV
valuation to the ending inventory. The preliminary 2020 statement
of earnings follows:
| Sales revenue | $ | 297,000 | ||||
| Cost of sales | ||||||
| Beginning inventory | $ | 32,700 | ||||
| Purchases | 201,000 | |||||
| Cost of goods available for sale | 233,700 | |||||
| Ending inventory (FIFO cost) | 75,536 | |||||
| Cost of sales | 158,164 | |||||
| Gross profit | 138,836 | |||||
| Operating expenses | 63,700 | |||||
| Pretax earnings | 75,136 | |||||
| Income tax expense (40%) | 30,054 | |||||
| Net earnings | $ | 45,082 | ||||
Assume that you have been asked to restate the 2020 financial
statements to incorporate the LC&NRV inventory valuation rule.
You have developed the following data relating to the ending
inventory at December 31, 2020:
| Acquisition Cost | ||||||||||||
| Item | Quantity | Unit | Total | Net Realizable Value | ||||||||
| A | 3,220 | $ | 4.70 | $ | 15,134 | $ | 5.70 | |||||
| B | 1,670 | 6.70 | 11,189 | 5.20 | ||||||||
| C | 7,270 | 3.20 | 23,264 | 5.20 | ||||||||
| D | 3,370 | 7.70 | 25,949 | 5.70 | ||||||||
| $ | 75,536 | |||||||||||
1. Restate the statement of earnings to reflect the valuation of the ending inventory on December 31, 2020, at the LC&NRV. Apply the LC&NRV rule on an item-by-item basis.(FINISHED BELOW ANSWER QUESTION 2)
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2. Compare and explain the LC&NRV effect on each amount that was changed in part 1. (Negative answers should be indicated by a minus sign.)