Diderot Stores Inc., which uses the conventional retail inventory method, wishes to change to the LIFO retail

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Diderot Stores Inc., which uses the conventional retail inventory method, wishes to change to the LIFO retail method beginning with the accounting year ending December 31, 2012.

   Amounts as shown below appear on the store’s books before adjustment.

You are to assume that all markups and markdowns apply to 2012 purchases, and that it is appropriate to treat the entire inventory as a single department.
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Compute the inventory at December 31, 2012, under the following methods.
  (a) The conventional retail method.
  (b) The last-in, first-out retail method, effecting the change in method as of January 1, 2012. Assume that the cost-to-retail percentage for 2011 was recomputed correctly in accordance with procedures necessary to change to LIFO. This ratio was 59%.

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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 978-0470587287

14th Edition

Authors: kieso, weygandt and warfield.

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