Mercury Company has only one inventory pool. On December 31, 2018, Mercury adopted the dollar-value...

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Mercury Company has only one inventory pool. On December 31, 2018, Mercury adopted the dollar-value LIFO inventory method. The inventory on that date using the dollar-value LIFO method was $218,000. Inventory data are as follows:

Year Ending Inventory at Year-End Costs Ending Inventory at Base Year Costs
2019 $ 268,800 $ 256,000
2020 361,100 314,000
2021 364,800 304,000

Required: Compute the inventory at December 31, 2019, 2020, and 2021, using the dollar-value LIFO method. (Round "Year end cost index" to 2 decimal places.)

Inventory Layers Converted to Base Year Cost Inventory Layers Converted to Cost Ending Inventory DVL Cost
Date Inventory at Year-End Cost Year-End Cost Index Inventory Layers at Base Year Cost Inventory Layers at Base Year Cost Year-End Cost Index = Inventory Layers Converted to Cost
12/31/2018 = Base =
12/31/2019 = Base =
2019 =
12/31/2020 = Base =
2019 =
2020 =
12/31/2021 = Base =
2019 =
2020 =

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