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Toussaint Company issued 10,000 shares of its common stock in exchange for merchandise that it will resell. The merchandise had originally cost the other party $250,000 and had a fair value of $300,000 on the date of the exchange. The retail value of the inventory is $520,000. Toussaint Company is not publicly traded and cannot precisely determine the fair value of its stock. It has used some industry averages, however, and applied Black-Scholes-Merton and estimates the fair value of its stock to be about $28 per share. At what amount should the inventory be recorded?

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Answer:

The correct answer is $300,000.

Explanation:

According to the scenario, the computation of the given data are as follows:

Original cost = $250,000

Fair value = $300,000

Retail value = $520,000

As Share based transaction of the organization record or issued always at fair value for which the goods or services are exchanged.

Here, Fair value is given.

So, the transaction will be recorded at fair value = $300,000