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Laker Company reported the following January purchases and sales data for its only product. For specific identification, ending inventory consists of $212$ units, where $180$ are from the January $30$ purchase, $5$ are from the January $20$ purchase, and $27$ are from beginning inventory.

Date Activities Units Acquired at Cost Units sold at Retail

January $1$ Beginning inventory $146$ units @ $ $6\mathrm{.}00=$ $ $876$

January $10$ Sales $94$ units @ $ $15\mathrm{.}00$

January $20$ Purchase $66$ units @ $ $5\mathrm{.}00=330$

January $25$ Sales $86$ units @ $ $15\mathrm{.}00$

January $30$ Purchase $180$ units @ $ $4\mathrm{.}50=810$

Totals $392$ units $ $2,016180$ units

Exercise $5-7$A $($Algo$)$ Perpetual: Gross profit effects of inventory methods LO P$3,$ A$1$

Assume the perpetual inventory system is used.

Required:

Compute gross profit for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods.

Which method yields the highest gross profit?

Does gross profit using weighted average fall between that using FIFO and LIFO?

If costs were rising instead of falling, which method would yield the highest gross profit? Required information

Use the following information for the Exercises below. $($Algo$)$

$[$The following information applies to the questions displayed below.$]$

Laker Company reported the following January purchases and sales data for its only product. For specific identification,

ending inventory consists of $212$ units, where $180$ are from the January $30$ purchase, $5$ are from the January $20$ purchase,

and $27$ are from beginning inventory.

Exercise $5-7$A $($Algo$)$ Perpetual: Gross profit effects of inventory methods LO P$3,$ A$1$

Assume the perpetual inventory system is used.

Required:

Compute gross profit for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods.

Which method yields the highest gross profit?

Does gross profit using weighted average fall between that using FIFO and LIFO?

If costs were rising instead of falling, which method would yield the highest gross profit?

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Compute gross profit for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods.

Note: Round cost per unit to $2$ decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollars. Exercise $5-7$A $($Algo$)$ Perpetual: Gross profit effects of inventory methods LO P$3,$ A$1$

Assume the perpetual inventory system is used.

Required:

Compute gross profit for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods.

Which method yields the highest gross profit?

Does gross profit using weighted average fall between that using FIFO and LIFO?

If costs were rising instead of falling, which method would yield the highest gross profit?

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

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Compute gross profit for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods.

Note: Round cost per unit to $2$ decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollars.

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