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Flay Foods has always used the FIFO inventory costing method for both financial reporting and tax purposes. At the beginning of 2018, Flay decided to change to the UFO method. As a result of the change, net income in 2018 was $86 million. If the company had used LIFO in 2017, its cost of goods sold would have been higher by $6 million that year. Flay's records of inventory purchases and sales are not available for 2016 and several previous years. Last year, Fiay reported the following net income amounts in its comparative income statements (5 in millions) Net Income 2017 $90 2016 3 2015 86 Required: 1. Prepare the journal entry at the beginning of 2018 to record the change in accounting principle (Ignore income taxes.) 3. What amounts will Flay report for net income in its 2018-2016 comparative income statements? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 3 Prepare the journal entry at the beginning of 2018 to record the change in accounting principle. (Ignore income taxes.) (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Enter your answers in millions (1.0.. 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).) View transaction list Journal entry worksheet Record the change in accounting principle. Note: Enter debts before credits Event General Journal Debit Credit LLLLLL 2018 2016 2017 (s in millions) Net income LIFO LIFO (revised) FIFO Required 1

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