Sketchy Shoes is a subsidiary of Pacific Brands. Pacific routinely sells merchandise to Sketchy at a $20\%$ markup on cost$.$ Information on intercompany merchandise transactions is below $($in thousands$)$:

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Inventory balance on Sketchy$$s books, purchased from Pacific Brands, January $1,2023$$ $7,200$Inventory balance on Sketchy$$s books, purchased from Pacific Brands, December $31,20235,400$Total sales revenue recorded by Pacific Brands on merchandise sales to Sketchy in $2023300,000$

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a$.$ Prepare the working paper eliminating entries related to these intercompany transactions at December $31,2023.$

$$Enter answers in thousands. Downstream Intercompany Merchandise Transactions

Sketchy Shoes is a subsidiary of Pacific Brands. Pacific routinely sells merchandise to Sketchy at a $20\backslash \%$ markup on cost$.$ Information on intercompany merchandise transactions is below $($in thousands$)$:

Required

a$.$ Prepare the working paper eliminating entries related to these intercompany transactions at December $31,2023.$

Enter answers in thousands.

b$.$ Assume Sketchy sold merchandise acquired from Pacific Brands for $\backslash (\backslash$$ $400,000\backslash )$ during $2023.$ What amounts appear on the separate books of Pacific Brands and Sketchy Shoes, relating to the intercompany merchandise transactions, for sales revenue and cost of goods sold? What are consolidated sales and cost of goods sold? Show how the eliminating entries in part a above adjust the balances reported on the separate books of the two entities to the correct consolidated balances.

Remember to use negative signs with your credit balance answers in the $\backslash (\backslash$mathrm$\{$Dr$\}(\backslash$mathrm$\{$Cr$\})\backslash )$ columns.