When preparing its financial statements at the end of 2018, Thom Retail Inc. discovered an error in accounting for inventory. When Thom started to purchase merchandise from a new supplier, it expensed all transportation costs rather than capitalizing them as a cost of the inventory. It estimated that a portion of the transportation costs was erroneously expensed in 2017 and 2018. Transportation costs were $326,367 and $333,784 in fiscal 2017 and 2018, respectively. The company expensed all of the transportation costs in the year incurred when it should have capitalized a portion of the costs as ending inventory. Thorn determined that 90% of the inventory purchased in 2017 was sold in 2017 and 92% of the inventory purchased in 2018 was sold in 2018. Assume that all inventory on hand at the beginning of the year is sold during the year. Assume no tax implications. Round to the nearest dollar. The information from Thom's financial statements before any adjustment follows:

Required

a. Would net income have been higher or lower in 2017 and by how much? What will Thom report as net income in 2018?

b. What would Thom report as its inventory and retained earnings balances at the beginning of 2018 and at December 31, 2018?

c. Prepare the retained earnings portion of the statement of stockholders' equity for 2018.

d. What is the necessary journal entry to record the prior-period adjustment in 2018?

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Not Restated Net income Costof goods sod Inventory, 12/31 Reta ned earnings, 12/31 2016 2017 2018 $ 250.000 5.006,000 470,564 4.750 103 $ 287000 $ 302.000 5,575,360 267,324 5 320,000 256,684 5 008,403 5 021.903