Retail Inventory Method Questions with Answers.

What are Net Additional Markups?

Answer: A net increase in the original selling price.

What are the steps in Basic Retail Method?

Answer:

# Ending inventory at retail is determined.
# Cost to retail ratio is calculated.
# #1 x #2 = ending inventory at cost.

What is included in the cost ratio of the FIFO LCM Retail Method?

Answer: The cost ratio excludes the cost of beginning inventory from the numerator and the retail value of beginning inventory from the denominator. Net markdowns are also excluded from the cost ratio.

What are Net Markdowns?

Answer: A net decrease in the original selling price.

What is included in the cost ratio of the FIFO Retail Method?

Answer: The cost ratio excludes the cost of beginning inventory from the numerator and the retail value of beginning inventory from the denominator.

How is Normal Spoilage handled?

Answer: Subtracted along with sales from Goods Available for Sale at Retail to arrive at Ending Inventory at Retail.

What is included in the Average LCM or Conventional Retail Inventory Method cost ratio?

Answer: The cost ratio includes beginning inventory, along with current period purchases, in both the numerator and the denominator, but excludes net markdowns from the cost ratio calculation.

What is included in the cost ratio of the Average Retail Method?

Answer: The cost ratio includes beginning inventory, along with current period purchases in both the numerator and the denominator of the cost to retail ratio.

What is Original Selling Price?

Answer: Cost plus initial markup.


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