Gross Profit Method: Inventory and Sales Costs Ernst Equipment
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Ernst Equipment Co. wants to prepare interim financial statements for the first quarter. The wishes to avoid making a physical count of inventory. Ernst's gross profit rate averages following information for the first quarter is available from its records:
January 1 beginning inventory . . . . . . . $ 752,880
Cost of goods purchased . . . . . . . . . . . 2,159,630
Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 3,710,250
Sales returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,200
Use the gross profit method to estimate the company's first quarter ending inventory.
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