Mini-Case Minnie A. Wright-Hoff Works as an Accountant for Double Entry

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Mini-Case
Minnie A. Wright-Hoff works as an accountant for Double Entry Doors, Inc. Her company sells and installs oversized garage doors needed by large vehicles. Most of Minnie's work involves helping department heads and other decision makers by measuring and reporting costs for their departments, and by identifying areas where departments are exceeding their budgets. However, as one of only three accountants employed by Double Entry Doors, Minnie is something of a "jill-of-all-trades" in terms of her accounting assignments. For example, she recently spent several hours summarizing all of the financial data in account ledgers to see if the information was correct and balanced. Her efforts revealed no problems, so she is now ready to start working on the firm's financial statements. Minnie is interested in this part of the accounting cycle because she likes to be one of the first to know the "bottom line" her company will report. She knows that she and the other accountants who work on these statements can influence the results by the choices they make about the way they report certain items.
-Double Entry Door's suppliers maintained very stable prices for many years, but Minnie has noticed that the cost of doors has been rising steadily for the past few years. She is concerned that, given the company's current accounting methods of basing its cost on the most recent doors purchased, this will result in a much lower net income than in the past. The most likely reason for her concern is that Double Entry has apparently been using:

• A) The FIFO inventory valuation method to determine its cost of goods sold.
• B) A great deal of equity financing to purchase the doors.
• C) The LIFO inventory valuation method to determine its cost of goods sold.
• D) A depreciation method based on the average value of inventory.

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