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Cost of Goods Sold Calculations Guide

The document contains examples of calculating cost of goods sold for various merchandising companies. It provides the beginning and ending inventory amounts as well as purchases or manufacturing costs and uses those values to calculate the cost of goods sold through subtraction of inventory amounts.
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Cost of Goods Sold Calculations Guide

The document contains examples of calculating cost of goods sold for various merchandising companies. It provides the beginning and ending inventory amounts as well as purchases or manufacturing costs and uses those values to calculate the cost of goods sold through subtraction of inventory amounts.
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POST TEST -CHAPTER 2-CAE08

[Link] Inc. is a merchandising company. Last month the company's merchandise


purchases totaled $87,000. The company's beginning merchandise inventory was
$19,000 and its ending merchandise inventory was $11,000. What was the company's
cost of goods sold for the month?
Ans. 95,000
Solution:
Merchandise Inventory, beg. 19,000
Add: Merchandise purchase 87,000
Goods available for sale 106,000
Less: Finished goods inventory, end. 11,000
Cost of good sold 95,000

2. At the beginning of the most recent month's operations, finished goods inventory
was $30,000. The cost of goods manufactured was $326,000 and ending finished
goods inventory was $42,000. What was the cost of goods sold for the month?
Ans. 314,000
Solution:
Finished goods inventory, beg. 30,000
Add: Cost of goods manufactured 326,000
Goods available for sale 356,000
Less: Finished goods inventory, end. 42,000
Cost of goods sold 314,000

3. Haala Inc. is a merchandising company. Last month the company's cost of goods
sold was $68,000. The company's beginning merchandise inventory was $11,000 and
its ending merchandise inventory was $17,000. What was the total amount of the
company's merchandise purchases for the month?
Ans. 74,000
Solution:
Merchandise inventory, beg. 11,000
Add: Merchandise manufactured ?
Goods available for sale ?
Less: Merchandise inventory, end. 17,000
Cost of goods sold 68,000

Goods available for sale = Cost of goods sold + Merchandise inventory end.
Goods available for sale = 68,000 + 17,000
Goods available for sale = 85,000

Merchandise purchased = goods available for sale – merchandise inventory beg.


Merchandise purchased = 85,000 – 11,000
Merchandise purchased = 74,000
4. During July, the cost of goods manufactured at Xxis Corporation was $70,000. The
beginning finished goods inventory was $19,000 and the ending finished goods
inventory was $15,000. What was the cost of goods sold for the month?
Ans. 74,000
Solution:
Finished goods inventory, beg. 19,000
Add: Cost of goods manufactured 70,000
Goods available for sale 89,000
Less: Finished goods inventory, end. 15,000
Cost of goods sold 74,000

5. What was Toule's cost of goods sold for October?


Ans. 869,000
Solution:

Beginning finished goods inventory + cost of goods manufactured – Ending finished goods
inventory = Cost of goods sold
Rearranging:
Cost of goods manufactured + (Beginning finished goods inventory – Ending finished goods
inventory) = Cost of goods sold
907,000 + (-38,000)* = Cost of goods sold
869,000 = Cost of goods sold

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