Sauder Company Reports Goods Available for Sale at Cost, $90,000

question 70

Essay

Sauder Company reports goods available for sale at cost, $90,000. Beginning inventory at retail is $40,000 and goods purchased during the period at retail were $80,000. Sales for the period amounted to $88,000.
Instructions
Determine the estimated cost of the ending inventory using the retail inventory method.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Curve

A specific instance of a normally distributed curve where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Right-Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean and median are greater than the mode.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped curve distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, with data symmetrically distributed around the mean.