current Year Preceding Year Sales $3,600,000 $4,000,000 Cost of goods sold 2,000,000 2,700,000 Beginning inventory 372,000 352,000 Inventory, end of year 390,000 372,000 a. Determine for each year (1) the inventory turnover and (2) the number of days' sales in inventory. 1. The inventory turnover: (If required, round your answers to one decimal place.) Current Year Preceding Year 2. The number of days' sales in inventory: Assume a 365-day year. (Round your intermediate calculation to whole number and final answers to two decimal places.) Current Year days Preceding Year days b. Comment on the favorable and unfavorable trends revealed by the data. The inventory turnover Sales while gross profit in inventory which are unfavorable trends. and the number of days' sales Previous Next >