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Roman Sound uses a periodic inventory system. One of the store's products is a wireles...

Roman Sound uses a periodic inventory system. One of the store's products is a wireless head­phone. The inventory quantities, purchases, and sales of this product for the most recent year are as follows:

 

Number of Units

Cost per Unit

Total Cost

Inventory, Jan. 1

  10

$100

$1,000

First purchase

  30

101

3,030

Second purchase

  40

104

4,160

Third purchase

  5

106

530

Fourth purchase

  15

110

1,650

Goods available for sale

  100

 

$10,370

Units sold during the year

  80

 

 

Inventory, Dec. 31

  20

 

 

Instructions

a. Using periodic costing procedures, compute the cost of the December 31 inventory and the cost of goods Sold for the year under each of the following cost assumptions:

1. First-in. first-out.

2. Last-in. first-out.

3. Average cost (round to the nearest dollar, except unit cost).


b. Which of the three inventory pricing methods provides the most realistic balance sheet valuation of inventory in light of the current replacement cost of these headphones? Does this same method also produce the most realistic measure of income in light of the costs being incurred by Roman Sound to replace these units when they are sold? Explain.

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