In: Accounting
Kelley, Inc. provided the following account balances for 2018:
Cost of Goods Sold (Cost of sales) |
$ 1 comma 400 comma 000$1,400,000 |
Beginning Merchandise Inventory |
300,000 |
Ending Merchandise Inventory |
350,000 |
Calculate the average number of days that inventory was held by Kelley, Inc. during 2018. (Assume 365 days in a year. Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to two decimal places.)
Answer:-
No. of days sales in inventory = Number of days in a year / Inventory turnover ratio
=$365 days/4 times
=91.25 days
Explanation:-Inventory turnover ratio= Cost of goods sold/Average inventory
= $1400000/($300000+$350000/2)
=$1400000/$325000
= 4 times