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Laker Company reported the following January purchases and sales
data for its only product. The Company uses a periodic inventory
system. For specific identification, ending inventory consists of
226 units, where 180 are from the January 30 purchase, 5 are from
the January 20 purchase, and 41 are from beginning inventory.
rev: 10_14_2020_QC_CS-233978
Exercise 5-4 (Algo) Periodic: Gross profit effects of inventory
methods LO A1
1. Compute gross profit for the month of
January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods.
2. Which method yields the highest gross
profit?
3. Does gross profit using weighted average
fall between that using FIFO and LIFO?
4. If costs were rising instead of falling,
which method would yield the highest gross profit?