Wayward Company wants to prepare interim financial statements for the first quarter. The company wishes to avoid making a physical count of inventory. Wayward’s gross profit rate averages 34%. The following information for the first quarter is available from its records.

January 1 beginning inventory . . . . . . . . . $ 302,580

Cost of goods purchased . . . . . . . . . . . . 941,040

Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,211,160

Sales returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,410

Required

Use the gross profit method to estimate the company’s first quarter endinginventory.