Exercise 9-16 Bonita Company lost most of its inventory in a fire in December just before the year-end physical inventory was taken. The corporation's books disclosed the following. Beginning inventory $168,500 Sales revenue Purchases for the year 412,700 Sales returns Purchase returns 30,100 Rate of gross profit on net sales $628,200 25,600 20 % Merchandise with a selling price of $20,300 remained undamaged after the fire. Damaged merchandise with an original selling price of $15,200 had a net realizable value of $5,200. Compute the amount of the loss as a result of the fire, assuming that the corporation had no insurance coverage. Amount of the loss