Belle Equipment Co. wants to prepare interim financial statements for the first quarter of 2020. The company

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Belle Equipment Co. wants to prepare interim financial statements for the first quarter of 2020. The company uses a periodic inventory system but would like to avoid making a physical count of inventory. During the last five years, the company’s gross profit rate has averaged 30%. The following information for the year’s first quarter is available from its records:

January 1 beginning inventory ................................... $ 376,440
Purchases ..................................................................... 1,066,050
Purchase returns .............................................................. 19,185
Transportation-in ............................................................. 32,950
Sales .............................................................................. 1,855,125
Sales returns ..................................................................... 37,100


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Use the gross profit method to prepare an estimate of the company’s March 31, 2020, inventory.

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Fundamental Accounting Principles Volume I

ISBN: 978-1260305821

16th Canadian edition

Authors: Kermit Larson, Tilly Jensen, Heidi Dieckmann

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