Problem - Presented below is information related to Sarasota Company.
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Cost
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Retail
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Beginning inventory
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$ 55,350
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$105,100
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Purchases (net)
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134,190
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199,600
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Net markups
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9,339
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Net markdowns
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25,842
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Sales revenue
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192,900
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a. Compute the ending inventory at retail.
b. Compute a cost-to-retail percentage under the following conditions.
(1) Excluding both markups and markdowns.
(2) Excluding markups but including markdowns.
(3) Excluding markdowns but including markups.
(4) Including both markdowns and markups.
c. Which of the methods in (b) above does the following?
(1) Provides the most conservative estimate of ending inventory.
(2) Provides an approximation of lower-of-cost-or-market.
(3) Is used in the conventional retail method.
d. Compute ending inventory at lower-of-cost-or-market.
e. Compute cost of goods sold based on (d).
f. Compute gross margin based on (d).