Trade Mart has recently had lackluster sales. The rate of inventory turnover has dropped, and the merchandise is gathering dust. At the same time, competition has forced 's suppliers to lower the prices that will pay when it replaces its inventory. It is now December 31, , and the net realizable value of 's ending inventory is below what the company actually paid for the goods, which was . Before any adjustments at the end of the period, the Cost of Goods Sold account has a balance of . Read the requirementsLOADING Requirement a. What accounting action should take in this situation? should apply the ▼ average-cost method first in, first out method last in, first out method lower-of-cost-or-market rule to account for inventories. The net realizable value of ending inventory is ▼ equal to less than more than 's actual cost, so must write the inventory ▼ down up to net realizable value.

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Florence invested in a factory requiring. federally-mandated reductions in carbon emissions. how will this impact florence as the factory's owner? a. her factory will be worth less once the upgrades are complete. b. her factory will likely be bought by the epa. c. florence will have to invest a large amount of capital to update the factory for little financial gain. d. florence will have to invest a large amount of capital to update the factory for a large financial gain.

Jiffy printing shops does a lot of printing job for college students. the shop use an average of 25 cases of copy paper each day during the 312 days last year. the shop opens 6 days a week for 52 weeks each year and closes on sundays. each case of paper costs $35. it conducts a count of its paper inventory at the end of every quarter of the year. the table below shows the inventory counting records for last year. inventory end of quarter 1 700 cases end of quarter 2 1,050 cases end of quarter 3 920 cases end of quarter 4 800 cases 1. what's jiffy's cost of goods sold last year? 2. what's jiffy's average aggregate inventory value? 3. what's jiffy's inventory turnover last year? 4. what is the printing shop's weeks of supply last year?