a. final inventory and the total of goods available for sale contain the same proportion of high-cost and low-cost ratio goods.
b. ratio of gross margin to sales is approximately the same each period.
c. ratio of cost to retail changes at a constant rate.
d. proportions of markups and markdowns to selling price are the same.
53. Which statement is true about the retail inventory method? a. It may not be used to estimate inventories for interim statements. b. It may not be used to estimate inventories for annual statements. c. It may not be used by auditors. d. None of these.
54. When the conventional retail inventory method is used, markdowns are commonly ignored in the computation of the cost to retail ratio because
a. there may be no markdowns in a given year.
b. this tends to give a better approximation of the lower of cost or market.
c. markups are also ignored.
d. this tends to result in the showing of a normal profit margin in a period when no markdown goods have been sold.