Question

Income Statement and balance sheet information abstracted from a recent annual report of Wolverine World Wide, Inc., appears below:

Balance Sheet (in millions):

	December 30, 2017	December 31, 2016
Current Assets: Inventories	$276.7	$348.7

Income Statement (in millions):

	For the year ended December 30,2017	For the year ended December 31, 2016
Net Sales	$2350.0	$2494.6
Cost of Goods Sold	$1426.6	$1526.4
Gross Profit	$923.4	$968.2

The significant accounting policies note disclosure contained the following:

Inventories

The Company used the LIFO method to value inventories of $53.2 million at December 30, 2017 and $66.2 million at December 31, 2016. During fiscal year 2017, a reduction in inventory quantities resulted in a liquidation of applicable LIFO inventory quantities carried at lower costs in previous years. This LIFO liquidation decreased cost of goods sold by $6.0 million. If the FIFO method had been used, inventories would have been $16.4 million $22.4 million higher reported at December 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 respectively.

2. Calculate what beginning inventory and ending inventory would have been for the year ended December 31, 2017 if Wolverine had used FIFO for all of its inventories.

3. Calculate what cost of goods sold and profit would have been for the year ended December 31, 2017, if Wolverine had used FIFO for all its inventories.

  (For all requirements, do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in millions rounded to 1 decimal place.)

2-i.	Beginning inventory		million
2-ii.	Ending inventory		million
3-i.	Cost of Goods Sold		million
3-ii.	Gross Profit		million

Answer 1

2					Ending inventory	Beginning inventory
	Inventories as per balance sheet				276.7	348.7
	Increase due to change from LIFO to FIFO				16.4	22.4
	FIFO inventory balance				293.1	371.1
3	Increase in ending inventory=$ 16.4 million
	Increase in beginning inventory=$ 22.4 million
	Net increase in beginning inventory=22.4-16.4=$ 6 million
	Increase in beginning inventory will result in increase in cost of goods sold by $ 6 million
	Cost of goods sold=1426.6+6=$ 1432.6 million
	Profit=Net sales-Cost of goods sold=2350-1432.6=$ 917.4
	Summary:
	2-i.	Beginning inventory			371.1	Million
	2-ii.	Ending inventory			293.1	Million
	3-i.	Cost of goods sold			1432.6	Million
	3-ii.	Gross profit			917.4	Million