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Garcia Home Improvement Company installs replacement siding, windows, and louvered glass doors for single-family homes and condominium complexes in northern New Jersey and southern New York. The company is in the process of preparing its annual financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2014, and Jim Alcide, controller for Garcia, has gathered the following data concerning inventory.

At May 31, 2014, the balance in Garcias Raw Materials Inventory account was $596,496, and Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market had a credit balance of $26,600. Alcide summarized the relevant inventory cost and market data at May 31, 2014, in the schedule below.

Alcide assigned Patricia Devereaux, an intern from a local college, the task of calculating the amount that should appear on Garcias May 31, 2014, financial statements for inventory under the lower-of-cost-or-market rule as applied to each item in inventory. Devereaux expressed concern over departing from the historical cost principle.

Cost	Replacement Cost	Sales Price	Net Realizable Value	Normal Profit
Aluminum siding	$102,340	$91,375	$93,568	$81,872	$7,456
Cedar shake siding	125,732	116,083	137,428	123,978	10,819
Louvered glass doors	163,744	181,288	272,517	246,055	27,047
Thermal windows	204,680	184,212	226,318	204,680	22,515
Total	$596,496	$572,958	$729,831	$656,585	$67,837

(a1) Determine the proper balance in Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market at May 31, 2014.

Balance in the Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market

$

(a2) For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2014, determine the amount of the gain or loss that would be recorded due to the change in Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market.

The amount of the loss

$