Use the following information about the current year’s opera…

Use the following information about the current year’s operations of a company to calculate the cash paid for merchandise.           Cost of goods sold $ 735,000   Merchandise inventory, January 1   84,700   Merchandise inventory, December 31   82,400   Accounts payable, January 1   54,500   Accounts payable, December 31   60,200  

A company’s Inventory balance at the end of the year was $18…

A company’s Inventory balance at the end of the year was $188,000 and $200,000 at the beginning of the year. Its Accounts Payable balance at the end of the year was $84,000 and $80,000 at the beginning of the year, and its cost of goods sold for the year was $720,000. The company’s total amount of cash payments for merchandise during the year equals: