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Non-Profit Making Organisations

For You To Do 10: Solution

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Based on the data supplied
Opening stock1,277.00
Purchases9,222.00
Available for sale10,499.00
Actual closing stock889.00
Cost of sales9,610.00
Estimated mark up1,922.00
Estimated sales11,532.00

and this...

Calculations from what should have happened
Opening stock1,277.00
Purchases9,222.00
Available for sale10,499.00
Estimated closing stock4,471.83
Estimated cost of sales14,970.83
Average mark up on actual sales2,994.17
Actual sales17,965.00

therefore

Stock appears to be missing(3,583)

You should now consider working with the club at finding out what has happened to the missing £3,583 of stock. After all, total purchases are only worth £9,222 so that's almost a third of the year's stock that's gone missing.

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