FR – L2 – Q20 – Inventories

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  1. Company Name Changes:
    • “Teshie Trading Corporation” was changed to “Teshi Trading Limited”.
    • “TTC” (abbreviation for Teshie Trading Corporation) was changed to “TTL” (abbreviation for Teshi Trading Limited).
  2. Location Changes:
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  4. Currency and Context:
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Question Structure

====================================================================== Question Title: FR – L2 – Q20a – Inventories
Level: Level 2
Professional Bodies: Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG)
Programs: Professional Program
Subjects: Financial Reporting
Topics: Financial Reporting Standards and Their Applications
Total Marks: 9
Question Tags: Inventories, FIFO, Weighted Average Cost, Cost of Sales, Inventory Valuation, IAS 2
Question Short Summary: Compute cost of sales and inventory for Teshi Trading Limited using FIFO and weighted average cost methods for January 20X6.


Question:
(a) On 1 January 20X6, Teshi Trading Limited held 300 units of an item of finished goods inventory. These were valued at GH₵22 each. During January 20X6, the batches of finished goods were received into store from the production department, as follows:

Date Units Received Production cost per unit
10-Jan 400 GH₵23
20-Jan 400 GH₵25
25-Jan 400 GH₵26

Goods sold out of the inventory during January 20X6 were as follows:

Date Units sold Sale price per unit
14-Jan 500 GH₵31
21-Jan 500 GH₵33
28-Jan 100 GH₵32

Required
Compute the cost of sales and inventory at 31 January 20X6, applying the following basis of inventory valuation:
(i) FIFO
(ii) Weighted Average Cost (Average is updated after every transaction).

(b) The cost of inventory of Teshi Trading Limited (TTL) based on inventory count conducted on 17 January 20X6 was GH₵675,000. These included goods costing GH₵15,000 which were purchased in December 20X5 and have a net realisable value of GH₵12,000.
During the period between 31 December 20X5 and 17 January 20X6, the following transactions took place:
(i) Value of goods purchased amounted to GH₵155,710.
(ii) Sale of goods amounted to GH₵250,000. TTL normally sells goods at a mark-up of 25% of cost. However, 20% of the sales were made at a discount of 8% of the normal selling price.
(iii) Goods costing GH₵1,990 were returned to a supplier.
(iv) Goods sold to a customer on 4 January 20X6 were returned on 15 January 20X6.

Required
Calculate the value of inventories that should be reported in the financial statements of TTL as at 31 December 20X5.

(c) Which of the following items may be included in computing the value of inventory of finished goods manufactured by a business:

(i) raw materials

(ii) foremen’s salaries

(iii) carriage inwards

(iv) carriage outwards

(v) plant depreciation

(vi) cost of storage of finished goods

(vii) abnormal waste of materials

(viii) salesmen’s commission

(d) What will be the effect of the following on cost of sales, profit, and inventory:

(i) if in times of rising prices, the valuation of inventory is done on the basis of FIFO as opposed to weighted average cost method?

(ii) if an item of inventory having cost of GH₵69,300 and net realisable value of GH₵65,000 is omitted from original inventory count?

(a) (i) FIFO

Date Cost of sales – issue Cost of sales Closing inventory
Units Unit cost Total
14-Jan 300 22 6,600
200 23 4,600 11,200
21-Jan 200 23 4,600
300 25 7,500 12,100
28-Jan 100 25 2,500 2,500
Closing inventory 400 26 10,400 10,400
25,800

Particulars Units Per unit cost Total
Opening inventory 300 22 6,600
Purchases 1,200 29,600
Closing inventory (Rate of last purchases) (400) 26 (10,400)
Cost of sales 1,100 25,800

(ii) Weighted average cost

Date Particulars Cost of sales – issue Cost of sales Closing inventory
Units Unit cost Total
1-Jan Opening inventory 300 22.000 6,600
10-Jan Purchases 400 23.000 9,200
700 22.571 15,800
14-Jan Sales 500 22.571 11,286 11,286
200 22.575 4,515
20-Jan Purchases 400 25.000 10,000
600 24.192 14,515
21-Jan Sales 500 24.192 12,096 12,096
100 24.190 2,419
25-Jan Purchases 400 26.000 10,400
500 25.638 12,819
28-Jan Sales 100 25.638 2,564 2,564
31-Jan 400 25.638 10,255 25,946 10,255

(b)

Description GH₵
Inventory value on 17 January 20X6 675,000
Less: Adjustment NRV (15,000 – 12,000) (3,000)
Add: Cost of sales (normal sales 250,000 × 80% × 100/125) 160,000
Cost of sales {discounted sales 250,000 × 20% × 100/(125 × 0.92)} 43,478
Purchases (155,710)
Purchase returns 1,990
Inventory value on 31 December 20X5 721,758

Goods sold on 4 January 20X6 and returned on 15 January 20X6, no entry.

(c)

(i) Include

(ii) Include

(iii) Include

(iv) Do not include

(v) Include

(vi) Do not include

(vii) Do not include

(viii) Do not include

(d)

(i) Cost of sales will be lower whereas profit and inventory will be higher.

(ii) Cost of sales will be higher by GH₵65,000 whereas profit and inventory will be lower by the same amount.