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Chapter 8 Inventories: Measurement
Question 8–4
Inventory shipped f.o.b. shipping point is included in the inventory of the
purchaser when the merchandise is given to the delivery company. Laetner
Corporation records the purchase in 2021 and includes the shipment in its ending
inventory. Bockner Company records the sale in 2021. Inventory shipped f.o.b.
destination is included in the inventory of the seller until it reaches the purchaser’s
location. Bockner would include the merchandise in its 2021 ending inventory and
the sale/purchase would be recorded in 2022.
Question 8–5
A consignment is an arrangement under which goods are physically transferred to
another company (the consignee), but the transferor (consignor) retains legal title. If
the consignee can’t find a buyer, the goods are returned to the consignor. Goods held
on consignment are included in the inventory of the consignor until sold by the
consignee.
Question 8–6
Under the gross method, we record the purchase for the full (or gross) amount of
the inventory’s cost. Purchase discounts taken are a reduction of inventory at the time
the invoice is paid. Under the net method, we record the purchase of inventory for its
full amount minus (or net of) the possible discount on that amount. The presumption
by the purchaser under the net method is that inventory should be recorded for its cost,
and because the purchaser expects to pay the invoice within the discount period, the
discount should be subtracted at the time of the purchase to reflect the inventory’s
expected cost.
Question 8–7
1. Beginning inventory — increase
2. Purchases — increase
3. Ending inventory — decrease
4. Purchase returns — decrease
5. Freight-in — increase
Question 8–8
Four methods of assigning cost to ending inventory and cost of goods sold are (1)
specific identification, (2) first-in, first-out (FIFO), (3) last-in, first-out (LIFO), and
(4) average cost. The specific identification method requires each unit sold during the
period or each unit on hand at the end of the period to be traced through the system
and matched with its actual cost. First-in, first-out (FIFO) assumes that units sold are
the first units purchased. The last-in, first-out (LIFO) method assumes that the units
sold are the most recent units purchased. The average cost method assumes that cost
of goods sold and ending inventory consist of a mixture of all the goods available for
sale. The average unit cost applied to goods sold or ending inventory is an average
unit cost weighted by the number of units acquired at the various unit prices.
Question 8–9
When costs are declining, LIFO will result in a lower cost of goods sold and
higher net income than FIFO. This is because LIFO will include in cost of goods sold
the most recently purchased lower-cost merchandise. LIFO also will provide a higher
ending inventory in the balance sheet when costs are declining because the inventory
has units purchased at an earlier date, when costs were higher.
Question 8–10
Proponents of LIFO argue that it provides a better match of revenues and
expenses because cost of goods sold includes the costs of the most recent purchases.
These are matched with sales that reflect a current selling price. On the other hand,
inventory costs in the balance sheet generally are out of date because they are derived
from old purchase transactions. It is conceivable that a company’s LIFO inventory
balance could be based on unit costs actually incurred several years earlier. When
inventory quantity declines during a period, then these out-of-date inventory layers
will be liquidated and cost of goods sold will match noncurrent costs with current
selling prices.
Question 8–11
Many companies choose the LIFO inventory method to reduce income taxes in
periods when prices are rising. In periods of rising prices, LIFO results in a higher
cost of goods sold and therefore a lower net income than the other methods. The
companies’ income tax returns will report lower taxable incomes using LIFO and
lower taxes will be paid currently. If a company uses LIFO to measure its taxable
income, IRS regulations require that LIFO also be used to measure income reported to
investors and creditors.
Question 8–12
The gross profit, inventory turnover, and average days in inventory ratios are
designed to monitor inventories. The gross profit ratio is calculated by dividing gross
profit (net sales minus cost of goods sold) by net sales. Inventory turnover is
calculated by dividing cost of goods sold by average inventory, and we compute
average days in inventory by dividing the number of days in the period by the
inventory turnover ratio.
Question 8–13
A LIFO inventory pool groups inventory units into pools based on physical
similarities of the individual units. The average cost for all of a pool’s beginning
inventory and for all of a pool’s purchases during the period is used instead of
individual unit costs. If the quantity of ending inventory for the pool increases, then
ending inventory will consist of the beginning inventory plus a layer added during the
period at the average acquisition cost for the pool.
Question 8–14
The dollar-value LIFO method has important advantages. First, it simplifies the
recordkeeping procedures compared to unit LIFO because no information is needed
about unit flows. Second, it minimizes the probability of the liquidation of LIFO
inventory layers, even more so than the use of pools alone, through the aggregation of
many types of inventory into larger pools. In addition, firms that do not replace units
sold with new units of the same kind can use the method.
Question 8–15
After determining ending inventory at year-end cost, the following steps remain:
Question 8–16
The primary difference between U.S. GAAP and IFRS in the methods
allowed to value inventory is that IFRS does not allow the use of the LIFO
method.
January 6, 2022
Accounts payable............................................................ 250,000
Cash (99% × $250,000) .................................................. 247,500
Inventory (1% × $250,000) ............................................ 2,500
January 6, 2022
Accounts payable ............................................................ 247,500
Cash ............................................................................. 247,500
Date of Cost of
Sale Units Sold Units Sold Total Cost
Ending inventory:
Date of
Purchase Units Unit Cost Total Cost
January 8 75 $28 $2,100
January 19 200 30 6,000
Total $8,100
Average cost
Date Purchased Sold Balance
$7,800
Available = $26/unit
300 units
$10,550
Available = $28.133/unit
375 units
Average cost
Under LIFO, cost of goods sold would be $12,000 higher and income before
income taxes $12,000 lower if the year-end purchase is made.
If FIFO were used instead of LIFO, the year-end purchase would have no effect
on income before income taxes. FIFO cost of goods sold with or without the
purchase would consist of the 10,000 units from beginning inventory and 54,000 units
purchased during the year at $18:
The LIFO reserve has increased from $60,000 to $75,000. Inventory is reduced
with the use of the LIFO reserve, a contra account to inventory. Thus, an increase of
the LIFO reserve is a credit in the adjusting entry.
1/1/2021 $1,400,000
= $1,400,000 $1,400,000 (base) $1,400,000 × 1.00 = $1,400,000 $1,400,000
1.00
12/31/2021 $1,664,000
= $1,600,000 $1,400,000 (base) $1,400,000 × 1.00 = $1,400,000
1.04 200,000 (2018) 200,000 × 1.04 = 208,000 $1,608,000
Freight
Inventory 10 Freight-in 10
Cash 10 Cash 10
Returns
Accounts payable 12 Accounts payable 12
Inventory 12 Purchase returns 12
Sales
Accounts receivable 250 Accounts receivable 250
Sales revenue 250 Sales revenue 250
End of period
No entry Cost of goods sold (below) 148
Inventory (ending) 30
Purchase returns 12
Inventory (beginning) 25
Purchases 155
Freight-in 10
2021:
(1) Cost of goods available for sale – Net purchases = Beginning inventory
876 – (630 – 18 – 24 + 13) = 275 = Beginning inventory
(2) Cost of goods available for sale – Cost of goods sold = Ending inventory
876 – 627 = 249 = Ending inventory
2022:
(3) 2022 beginning inventory = 2021 ending inventory = 249
(4) Cost of goods sold + Ending inventory = Cost of goods available for sale
621 + 225 = 846 = Cost of goods available for sale
(5) Cost of goods available for sale – Beginning inventory = Net purchases
846 – 249 = 597 = Net purchases
2023:
(6) Cost of goods available for sale – Ending inventory = Cost of goods sold
800 – 216 = 584 = Cost of goods sold
(7) Cost of goods available for sale – Beginning inventory = Net purchases
800 – 225 = 575 = Net purchases
Purchases (gross) – Purchase returns + Freight-in – Net purchases = Purchase discounts
585 – 14 + 16 – 575 = 12 = Purchase discounts
Times were hard that year. In the summer the miseries due to
unemployment and rising rents and prices began to be apparent, but
the pinch came with the cold weather. Perhaps it was an advantage
that we were so early exposed to the extraordinary sufferings and
the variety of pain and poverty in that winter of 1893-94, memorable
because of extreme economic depression. The impact of strain,
physical and emotional, left neither place nor time for self-analysis
and consequent self-consciousness, so prone to hinder and to dwarf
wholesome instincts, and so likely to have proved an impediment to
the simple relationship which we established with our neighbors.
It has become almost trite to speak of the kindness of the poor to
each other, yet from the beginning of our tenement-house residence
we were much touched by manifestations of it. An errand took me to
Michael the Scotch-Irish cobbler as the family were sitting down to
the noonday meal. There was a stranger with them, whom Michael
introduced, explaining when we were out of hearing that he thought I
would be interested to meet a man just out of Sing Sing prison. I
expressed some fear of the danger to his own boys in this
association. “We must just chance it,” said Michael. “It’s no weather
for a man like that to be on the streets, when honest fellows can’t get
work.”
When we first met the G⸺ family they were breaking up the
furniture to keep from freezing. One of the children had died and had
been buried in a public grave. Three times that year did Mrs. G⸺
painfully gather together enough money to have the baby disinterred
and fittingly buried in consecrated ground, and each time she gave
up her heart’s desire in order to relieve the sufferings of the living
children of her neighbors.
Another instance of this unfailing goodness of the poor to each
other was told by Nellie, who called on us one morning. She was
evidently embarrassed, and with difficulty related that, hearing of
things to be given away at a newspaper office, she had gone there
hoping to get something that would do for John when he came out of
the hospital. She said, “I drew this and I don’t know exactly what it is
meant for,” and displayed a wadded black satin “dress-shirt
protector,” in very good condition, and possibly contributed because
the season was over! Standing outside the circle of clamorous
petitioners, Nellie and the woman next her had exchanged tales of
woe. When she mentioned her address the new acquaintance
suggested that she seek us.
Nellie proved to be a near neighbor. There were two children: a
nursing baby “none so well,” and a lad. John, her husband, was
“fortunately” in the hospital with a broken leg, for there were “no jobs
around loose anyway.” When we called later in the day to see the
baby, we found that Nellie was stopping with her cousin, a widower
who “held his job down.” There were also his two children, the widow
of a friend “who would have done as much by me,” and the wife and
two small children of a total stranger who lived in the rear tenement
and were invited in to meals because the father had been seen
starting every morning on his hunt for work, and “it was plain for
anyone with eyes to see that he never did get it.” So this one man,
fortunate in having work, was taking care of himself and his children,
the widow of his friend, Nellie and her children, and was feeding the
strangers. Said Nellie: “Sure he’s doing that, and why not? He’s the
only cousin I’ve got outside of Ireland.”
Mrs. S⸺, who called at the settlement a few days ago, reminded
me that it was twenty-one years since our first meeting, and brought
vividly before me a picture of which she was a part. She was the
daughter of a learned rabbi, and her husband, himself a pious man,
had great reverence for the traditions of her family. In their extremity
they had taken bread from one of the newspaper charities, but it was
evidently a painful humiliation, and before we arrived they had
hidden the loaf in the ice-box. My visit was due to a desire to
ascertain the condition of the families who had applied for this dole.
Both house and people were scrupulously clean. It was amazing that
under the biting pressure of want and anxiety such standards could
be maintained. Yet, though passionately devoted to his family, the
husband refused advantageous employment because it necessitated
work on the Sabbath. This would have been to them a desecration of
something more vital than life itself.
We found that winter, in other instances, that the fangs of the wolf
were often decorously hidden. In one family of our acquaintance the
father, a cigarmaker, left the house each morning in search of work,
only to return at night hungrier and more exhausted by his fruitless
exertions. One Sabbath eve I entered his tenement, to find the two
rooms scrubbed and cleaned, and the mother and children prepared
for the holy night. Over a brisk fire fed by bits of wood picked up by
the children two covered pots were set, as if a supper were being
prepared. But under the lids it was only water that bubbled. The
proud mother could not bear to expose her poverty to the gossip of
the neighbors, the humiliation being the greater because she was
obliged to violate the sacred custom of preparing a ceremonious
meal for the united family on Friday night.
If the formalism of our neighbors in religious matters was
constantly brought to our attention, instances of their tolerance were
also far from rare. A Jewish woman, exhausted by her long day’s
scrubbing of office floors, walked many extra blocks to beg us to get
a priest for her Roman Catholic
neighbor whose child was dying. An
orthodox Jewish father, who had been
goaded to bitterness because his
daughter had married an “Irisher” and
thus “insulted his religion,” felt that the
young husband and his mother were
equally wronged. This man, when I
called on a Sabbath evening, took one
of the lights from the table to show the
way down the five flights of dark
tenement stairs, and to my protest,—
knowing, as I did, that he considered it
a sin to handle fire on the Sabbath,—
he said: “It is no sin for me to handle a
light on the Sabbath to show respect
to a friend who has helped to keep a
family together.”
With Prayer-shawl and Phylactery
The first day on which we set out to discover the sick who might
need a nurse, my comrade found a woman with high temperature in
an airless room, more oppressive because of the fetid odor from the
bed. Service with one of New York’s skilled specialists had trained
the nurse well and she identified the symptoms immediately. “Yes,
there was a Lodge doctor.—He had left a prescription.—He might
come again.” With fine diplomacy an excuse was made to call upon
the doctor and to assume that he would accept the nurse’s aid. My
colleague presented her credentials and offered to accompany him
to the case immediately, as she was “sure conditions must have
changed since his last visit or he would doubtless have ordered” so-
and-so,—suggesting the treatment the distinguished specialists were
then using. He promised to go, and the nurse waited patiently for
hours at the woman’s bedside. When he arrived he pooh-poohed
and said, “Nothing doing.” We had ascertained the financial condition
of the family from the evidence of the empty push-cart and the fact
that the fish-peddler was not in the market with his merchandise.
Five dollars was loaned that night to purchase stock next day.
My comrade and I decided to visit the patient early the next
morning, to mingle judgments on what action could be taken in this
serious illness with due respect to established etiquette. When we
arrived, the Lodge doctor and a “Professor” (a consultant) were in
the sickroom, and our five dollars, left for fish, was in their
possession. Cigarettes in mouths and hats on heads, they were
questioning husband and wife, and only Dickens could have done
justice to the scene. We were not too timid to allude to the poverty
and the source of the fee, and felt free when we were told to “go
ahead and do anything you like.” That permission we acted upon
instantly and received, over the telephone, authority from the
distinguished specialist to get to work. We were prudent enough to
report the authority and treatment given, with solemn etiquette, to the
physician in attendance, who in turn congratulated us on having
helped him to save a life!
Not all our encounters with this class of practitioner were fruitful of
benefit to their patients. Heartbreaking was the tragedy of Samuel,
the twenty-one-year-old carpenter, and Ida, his bride. They had been
boy and girl sweethearts in Poland, and the coming to America, the
preparation of the clean two-roomed home, the expectation of the
baby, made a pretty story which should have had happy succeeding
chapters, the start was so good. Samuel knocked at our door,
incoherent in his fright, but we were fast accustoming ourselves to
recognize danger-signals, and I at once followed him to the top floor
of his tenement.
Plain to see, Ida was dying. The midwife said she had done all she
could, but she was obviously frightened. “No one could have done
any better,” she insisted, “not any doctor”; but she had called one
and he had left the woman lacerated and agonizing because the
expected fee had been paid only in part. It was Samuel’s last dollar.
The septic woman could only be sent to the city hospital. The
ambulance surgeon was persuaded to let the boy husband ride with
her, and he remained at the hospital until she and the baby died a
few hours later.
Here my comrade and I came against the stone wall of
professional etiquette. It seemed as if public sentiment ought to be
directed by the doctors themselves against such practices, but
although I finally called upon one of the high-minded and
distinguished men who had signed the diploma of the offending
doctor, I could not get reproof administered, and my ardor for
arousing public indignation in the profession was chilled. Later, when
I heard protests from employers against insistence by labor
organizations on the closed shop, it occurred to me that they failed to
recognize analogies in the professional etiquette which conventional
society has long accepted.
However, many friendly strong bonds were made and have been
sustained with a large majority of the doctors during all the years of
our service. We have mutual ties of personal and community
interests, and work together as comrades; the practitioners with high
standards for themselves and ideals for their sacred profession
comprehend our common cause and strengthen our hands. It is rare
now, although at first it was very frequent, that the physician who has
called in the nurse for his patient demands her withdrawal when he
himself has been dismissed. He has come to see that although the
nurse exerts her influence to preserve his prestige, for the patient’s
sake as well as his own, nevertheless, emotional people,
unaccustomed to the settled relation of the family doctor, may and
often do change physicians from six to ten times in the course of one
illness. The nurse, however, may remain at the bedside throughout
all vicissitudes.
The most definite protest against the newer relationship came
from a woman active in many public movements, who was a stickler
for the orthodox method of procuring a visiting nurse only through
the doctor. To illustrate the importance of freedom for the patients, I
cited the case of the L⸺ family. A neighbor had called for aid.