Refer to the information in Problem 40 concerning Sedan Corporations inventory for the years ended March 31,

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Refer to the information in Problem 40 concerning Sedan Corporation€™s inventory for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012. The notes to Sedan€™s financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2013, state that some of Sedan€™s inventory is valued using the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method. Specifically, Sedan reported that for the year ended March 31, 2013, ¥283,735 million of inventory was valued using LIFO,compared to ¥357,055 for the year ended March 31, 2012.
Problem 40

Refer to the information in Problem 40 concerning Sedan Corporation€™s

The LIFO inventory amounts exceeded their FIFO amounts by ¥13,780 million for the year ended March 31, 2013, and by ¥30,360 million for the year ended March 31, 2012.
a. What would have been the carrying value of Sedan€™s inventory at March 31, 2013 and
2012, had the firm used FIFO to value all inventories?
b. What would have been Sedan€™s cost of products sold for the year ended March 31,
2013, if it had used FIFO for all of its inventories? Note: Convention assigns any LIFO reserve entirely to Finished GoodsInventory.

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