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 Garcia's Raw Material Inventory account was $471,240, and Allowance to Reduce Inventory to Market had a credit balance of $27,510. 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 Garcia"s 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	$80,850	$72,188	$73,920	$64,680	$5,891
Cedar shake siding	99,330	91,707	108,570	97,944	8,547
Louvered glass door	129,360	143,220	215,292	194,387	21,368
Thermal windows	161,700	145,530	178,794	161,700	17,787
Total	$471,240	$452,645	$576,576	$518,711	$53,593

(a1) Determin 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 ____________