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Question: Inferring Merchandise Purchases The Gap, Inc., is a specialty retailer that operates stores selling clothes under the trade names Gap, Forth and Towne, Banana Republic, and Old Navy. Assume you are employed as a stock analyst and your boss has just completed a review of the Gap annual report for the year ended January 28, 2006. She provided you with her notes, but they are missing some information that you need. Her notes show that the ending inventory for Gap in the current year was $1,696,000,000 and in the previous year was $1,814,000,000. Net sales for the current year were $16,023,000,000. Gross profit was $5,869,000,000 and net income was $1,113,000,000. For your analysis, you determine that you need to know the amount of purchases and cost of goods sold for the year.
Required: Do you need to ask your boss for her copy of the annual report, or can you develop the information from her notes? Explain and show calculations.
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