Session 8: Financial Reporting and Analysis: The Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement Reading 33: Understanding the Balance Sheet
LOS h: Interpret balance sheets and statements of changes in equity.
Information related to Bledsoe Corporation’s inventory, as of December 31, 2007, follows:
Estimated selling price |
$3,500,000 |
Estimated disposal costs |
50,000 |
Estimated completion costs |
300,000 |
Original FIFO cost |
3,200,000 |
Replacement cost |
3,300,000 |
Using the appropriate valuation method, what adjustment is necessary to accurately report Bledsoe’s inventory at the end of 2007, and will this adjustment affect Bledsoe’s quick ratio?
Inventories are valued on the balance sheet at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Net realizable value is equal to $3,150,000 ($3,500,000 selling price – $300,000 completion costs – $50,000 disposal costs). Since the original cost of $3,200,000 exceeds the net realizable value of $3,150,000, a $50,000 write-down is necessary. An inventory write-down has no impact on the quick ratio since inventory is excluded from both the numerator and denominator of the quick ratio.
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