Johnson corporation began the year with inventory of 14,000 units of its only product. units cost $8 each. The company uses a Perpetual inventory system and the fifo cost method. The following transactions occurred during the year: a. purchase 70,000 additional units at a cost of $10 per unit. Terms of the purchases were 2 /10 n/ 30, and 100% of the purchases were paid within the 10-day discount. The company uses the gross method to record purchase discounts. The merchandise was purchased f. O. B. Shipping point and Freight charges of $0.40 per unit were paid by Johnson.
b. 1400 units purchased during the year will return to suppliers for credit. Johnson was also given credit for the freight charges of $0.40 per unit it had paid on the original purchase. The units were defective and were returned two days after they were received.
c. sales for the year totaled 65,000 units at $18 per unit.
d. on December 28th Johnson purchased 5400 additional units at $10 each. The goods were shipped f. O. B. Destination and arrived at Johnson's Warehouse on January 4th of the following year
e. 17600 units were on hand at the end of the year.
required:
1. for financial reporting purposes, the company uses lifo (amounts based on the Periodic inventory system). Record the year-end adjusting entry for the lifo reserve, assuming the balance in the lifo Reserve at the beginning of the year it's $15,800
2. determine the amount the company would report as income before taxes for the year under lifo. Operating expenses other than those indicated in the above transactions amounted to $158,000