Question

You own a shoe store with a merchandise book value of $178,000. You conduct a physical inventory and find the value to be $169,000. Your total sales between inventories totaled $476,000. Calculate the shrinkage as a percentage of sales.

Answer 1

Answer:

1.89%

Explanation:

The book value of the merchandise is  $178,000

Physical inventory reveals stock is worth $169,000

The shrinkage = $178,000 - $169,000

=$9000

As a percentage of sales, the shrinkage will be

=$9000/$476,000 x 100

=0.0189076 x 100

=1.89%