Question

Pharoah Home Improvement Company installs replacement siding, windows, and louvered glass doors for single-family homes and condominium complexes. The company is in the process of preparing its annual financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020. Jim Alcide, controller for Pharoah, has gathered the following data concerning inventory.

At May 31, 2020, the balance in Pharoah’s Raw Materials Inventory account was $428,400, and Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market had a credit balance of $26,750. Alcide summarized the relevant inventory cost and market data at May 31, 2020, in the schedule below.

Alcide assigned Patricia Devereaux, an intern from a local college, the task of calculating the amount that should appear on Pharoah’s May 31, 2020, financial statements for inventory at lower-of-cost-or-market as applied to each item in inventory. Devereaux expressed concern over departing from the historical cost principle. Assume Garcia uses LIFO inventory costing.

		Cost		Replacement Cost			Sales Price			Net Realizable Value			Normal Profit
Aluminum siding		$73,500		$65,625			$67,200			$58,800			$5,355
Cedar shake siding		90,300		83,370			98,700			89,040			7,770
Louvered glass doors		117,600		130,200			195,720			176,715			19,425
Thermal windows		147,000		132,300			162,540			147,000			16,170
Total		$428,400		$411,495			$524,160			$471,555			$48,720

(a1) Determine the proper balance in Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market at May 31, 2020.

Balance in the Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market

$

(a2) For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020, determine the amount of the gain or loss that would be recorded due to the change in Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market.

The amount of the gain (loss)

$

Answer 1