Calculate what his sales would have been

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The following trading account is extracted from the statement of profit or loss for the year ending 31 December 2015 and is given to you by the owner of the business, S. Vane:

	£	£
Sales		324,600
Less Cost of goods sold:
Opening Inventory	39,000
Add Purchases	294,000
	333,000
Less Closing Inventory	(58,000)
		(275,000)
Gross profit		49,600

Vane says that he normally adds 25% to the cost of goods to fix the sales price. However, this year there were some arithmetical errors in these calculations.

(a) Calculate what his sales would have been if he had not made any errors.

(b) Given that his expenses remain constant at 8% of his sales, calculate his net profit for the year 2015.

(d) He thinks that next year he can increase his mark-up to 30%, selling goods which will cost him £280,000. If he does not make any more errors in calculating selling prices, you are to calculate the expected gross and net profits for 2016.

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