Maddox specialty company a division of lost world inc


Maddox Specialty Company, a division of Lost World Inc., manufactures three models of gear shift components for bicycles that are sold to bicycle manufacturers, retailers, and catalog outlets. Since beginning operations in 1990, Maddox has used normal absorption costing and has assumed a first-in, first-out cost flow in its perpetual inventory system. The balances of the inventory accounts at the end of Maddox's fiscal year, November 30, 2014, are shown below. The inventories are stated at cost before any year-end adjustments.

Finished goods

$672,880

Work in process

126,200

Raw materials

274,400

Factory supplies

70,300


The following information relates to Maddox's inventory and operations.

1. The finished goods inventory consists of the items analyzed below.

Cost

Market

Down tube shifter

Standard model

$ 69,100

$ 68,300

Click adjustment model

95,420

88,580

Deluxe model

112,800

110,100

Total down tube shifters

277,320

266,980

Bar end shifter

Standard model

83,190

93,640

Click adjustment model

108,700

107,100

Total bar end shifters

191,890

200,740

Head tube shifter

Standard model

79,070

78,600

Click adjustment model

124,600

126,500

Total head tube shifters

203,670

205,100

Total finished goods

$672,880

$672,820

2. One-half of the head tube shifter finished goods inventory is held by catalog outlets on consignment.

3. Three-quarters of the bar end shifter finished goods inventory has been pledged as collateral for a bank loan.

4. One-half of the raw materials balance represents derailleurs acquired at a contracted price 20% above the current market price. The market value of the rest of the raw materials is $135,100.

5. The total market value of the work in process inventory is $116,170.

6. Included in the cost of factory supplies are obsolete items with an historical cost of $4,790. The market value of the remaining factory supplies is $66,900.

7. Maddox applies the lower-of-cost-or-market method to each of the three types of shifters in finished goods inventory. For each of the other three inventory accounts, Maddox applies the lower-of-cost-or-market method to the total of each inventory account.

8. Consider all amounts presented above to be material in relation to Maddox's financial statements taken as a whole.

(a) Prepare the inventory section of Maddox's balance sheet as of November 30, 2015. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 2,550.)

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