Maddox Specialty Company, a division of Lost World Inc., manufactures three models of gear shift components for bicycles that are sold to bicycle manufacturers, retailers, and catalog outlets. Since beginning operations in 1993, Maddox has used normal absorption costing and has assumed a first-in, first-out cost flow in its perpetual inventory system. The balances of the inventory accounts at the end of Maddox's fiscal year, November 30, 2017, are shown below. The inventories are stated at cost before any year-end adjustments.
Finished goods.............................$647,000
Work in process..............................112,500
Raw materials................................264,000
Factory supplies...............................69,000
The following information relates to Maddox's inventory and operations.
1. The finished goods inventory consists of the items analyzed below.

2. One-half of the head tube shifter finished goods inventory is held by catalog outlets on consignment.
3. Three-quarters of the bar end shifter finished goods inventory has been pledged as collateral for a bank loan.
4. One-half of the raw materials balance represents derailleurs acquired at a contracted price 20% above the current market price. The NRV of the rest of the raw materials is $127,400.
5. The total NRV of the work in process inventory is $108,700.
6. Included in the cost of factory supplies are obsolete items with an historical cost of $4,200. The market value of the remaining factory supplies is $65,900.
7. Maddox applies the LCNRV method to each of the three types of shifters in finished goods inventory. For each of the other three inventory accounts, Maddox applies the LCNRV method to the total of each inventory account.
8. Consider all amounts presented above to be material in relation to Maddox's financial statements taken as a whole.
Instructions
(a) Prepare the inventory section of Maddox's balance sheet as of November 30, 2017, including any required note(s).
(b) Without prejudice to your answer to (a), assume that the NRV of Maddox's inventories is less than cost. Explain how this decline would be presented in Maddox's income statement for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2017.
(c) Assume that Maddox has a firm purchase commitment for the same type of derailleur included in the raw materials inventory as of November 30, 2017, and that the purchase commitment is at a contracted price 15% greater than the current market price. These derailleurs are to be delivered to Maddox after November 30, 2017. Discuss the impact, if any, that this purchase commitment would have on Maddox's financial statements prepared for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2017.

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Cost NRV Down tube shifter Standard model Click adjustment model Deluxe model 67,500 94,500 S 67,000 89,000 10,000 Total down tube shifters Bar end shifter Standard model Click adjustment model 90,050 99,000 7550 187,600 83,000 Total bar end shifters Head tube shifter Standard model Click adjustment model 182,000 78,000 117,000 195,000 $647,000 77,650 119,300 196,950 $650,550 Total head tube shifters Total finished goods