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The Bradley Corporation produces a product with the following costs as of July 1, 20X1:
| Material | $4 per unit |
| Labor | 4 per unit |
| Overhead | 2 per unit |
Beginning inventory at these costs on July 1 was 3,500 units.
From July 1 to December 1, 20X1, Bradley produced 13,000 units.
These units had a material cost of $4, labor of $6, and overhead of
$4 per unit. Bradley uses LIFO inventory accounting.
a. Assuming that Bradley sold 15,000 units during the last six months of the year at $19 each, what is its gross profit?
b. What is the value of ending inventory?
| In case of LIFO method the inventory which are produced later are sold and the earlier one are kept at part of inventory | |||||||||
| Therefore of the 15,000 units sold by the company 13,000 units would be sold from the units produced and 2,000 units from beginning inventory | |||||||||
| The ending inventory units would be 1,500 (3500+13000-15000) | |||||||||
| Formula to calculate gross profit | |||||||||
| Gross Profit = Sales - Cost of goods sold | |||||||||
| Computation of Gross profit is shown below | |||||||||
| Sales (15000*19) | $285,000 | ||||||||
| Less : Cost of goods sold | |||||||||
| From new inventory: | |||||||||
| Quantity | 13000 | ||||||||
| Cost per unit (4+6+4) | $14 | ||||||||
| Total | $182,000 | ||||||||
| From old inventory: | |||||||||
| Quantity | 2000 | ||||||||
| Cost per unit (4+4+2) | $10 | ||||||||
| Total | $20,000 | ||||||||
| Total cost of goods sold | $202,000 | ||||||||
| Gross Profit | $83,000 | ||||||||
| The gross profit of the company is $83,000 | |||||||||
| Computation of value of ending inventory | |||||||||
| Ending inventory units | 1500 | ||||||||
| Cost per unit (4+4+2) | $10 | ||||||||
| Value of inventory | $15,000 | ||||||||
| The value of ending inventory is $15,000 | |||||||||