ash Company cans a variety of vegetable-type soups. Recently, the company decided to value its inventories using dollar-value LIFO pools. The clerk who accounts for inventories does not understand how to value the inventory pools using this new method, so, as a private consultant, you have been asked to teach him how this new method works. He has provided you with the following information about purchases made over a 6-year period.

Date		Ending Inventory (End-of-Year Prices)				Price Index
Dec. 31, 2016			$81,300			100
Dec. 31, 2017			114,704			107
Dec. 31, 2018			111,386			122
Dec. 31, 2019			134,463			133
Dec. 31, 2020			152,581			143
Dec. 31, 2021			180,708			148

You have already explained to him how this inventory method is maintained, but he would feel better about it if you were to leave him detailed instructions explaining how these calculations are done and why he needs to put all inventories at a base-year value.