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Exercise 6-9 Blue Spruce Corp. uses the lower-of-cost-or-market basis for its inventory. The following data are available at December 31. Cost Market Units per Unit per Unit Cameras Minolta Canon $168 133 $143 154 Light Meters Vivitar Kodak 114 109 12 100 128 What amount should be reported on Blue Spruce Corp.s financial statements, assuming the lower-of-cost-or-market rule is applied? Total LINK TO TEXT VIDEO: APPLIED SKILLS VIDEO: SIMILAR EXERCISE Question Attempts: 1 of 3 used
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"VALUATION OF INVENTORIES", INVENTORIES SHOULD BE VALUED AT THE LOWER OF COST OR MARKET VALUE. INVENTORIES SHOULD BE WRITTEN DOWN TO MARKET VALUE ON AN ITEM BY ITEM BASIS.

ITEMS (a) UNITS (b) COST PER UNIT (c) MARKET VALUE PER UNIT (d) VALUATION OF CLOSING INVENTORY PER UNIT (e) = ( LOWER OF (c) OR (d) ) TOTAL VALUE (f) = (b) x (e)
CAMERAS
MINOLTA 5 $ 168 $ 143 $ 143 $ 715
CANON 8 $ 133 $ 154 $ 133 $1064
LIGHT METERS
VIVITAR 12 $ 114 $ 100 $ 100 $ 1200
KODAK 11 $ 109 $ 128 $ 109 $ 1199
TOTAL VALUATION OF CLOSING INVENTORIES SHOWN IN FS $ 4178
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