At the beginning of 2018, england dresses has an inventory of $140,000. however, management wants to reduce the amount of inventory on hand to $80,000 at december 31. if net sales for 2018 are forecast at $400,000 and the gross profit rate is expected to be 40%, compute the cost of the merchandise which management should expect to purchase during 2018. (hint: first compute the expected cost of goods sold.)

purchases = 160000

Explanation:

given data

beginning inventory = $140,000

amount of inventory on hand = $80,000

net sales = $400,000

gross profit rate = 40%

solution

we first Computation of cost of goods sold  hat is

Gross profit rate = × 100

= = =

= 100 Gross profit = 16000000

so

Gross profit = 160000

and

Cost of goods sold is = sales - gross profit

so

Cost of goods sold = 400000 - 160000

Cost of goods sold = 240000

and

Cost of goods sold = opening inventory + purchases - closing inventory  

so put here value

240000 = 140000 + purchases - 60000

so purchases = 160000

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