Question

The Tuck Shop began the current month with inventory costing $10,000, then purchased inventory at a cost of $35,000. The perpetual inventory system indicates that inventory costing $30,000 was sold during the month for $40,000. If an inventory count shows that inventory costing $14,500 is actually on hand at month-end, what amount of shrinkage occurred during the month

Answer 1

$500 shrinkage

Step-by-step explanation:

Calculation to determine the amount of shrinkage occurred during the month

Using this formula

Shrinkage=Ending inventory-Actual count

Let plug in the formula

Ending inventory=$10,000 + $35,000 - $30,000 Ending inventory= $15,000

Shrinkage=$15,000 - $14,500

Shrinkage= $500

Therefore the amount of shrinkage occurred during the month is $500