ACCT20200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Earnings Before Interest And Taxes, Balance Sheet, Income Statement
Ch. 6: Inventory and Costs of Goods sold
● Inventory: Items company intends for sale two customers in the ordinary course of
business.
○ Inventory is a current asset, cost of goods sold is an expense
● Ending inventory is often the largest asset in the balance sheet and cost of goods sold is the
largest expense in the income statement
● Manufacturing companies: produce the inventory of spaced-out rather than buying them
in finished form from suppliers
○ Raw materials: inventory includes the cost of components that will become part of
the finished product but we haven't used in production
○ Work-in-process:The products that have been started in the production process but
are not yet complete at the end of the period.
○ Finished goods:Items for which the manufacturing process is complete
● Merchandising companies: Purchase finished products from manufacturers and they sell the
product to the customers
○ Wholesalers:resale inventory to retail companies or two professional users
○ Retailers: purchase inventory from manufacturers or wholesalers and then sell this
inventory to end users
● Service companies record revenues when providing services to customers. Merchandising and
manufacturing companies record revenues when selling inventory to customers.
● Ending inventory is inventory not sold. Inventory sold is the cost of the goods sold expense
● Multiple-step income statement: the income statement reports multiple levels of income or profit.
Separating revenues and expenses in two different types provides a better way of determining the
source of profitability
○ Gross profit: net revenues or net sales minus cost of goods sold
○ Net sales: net amount of revenues
○ Operating income: gross profit reduced by operating expenses.
■ Measures profitability of normal operations.
○ Operating expenses: selling, general and administrative expenses, depreciation, salaries,
rent, utilities, etc.
○ Nonoperating revenues and expenses: other income = positive, other expense = negative.
■ Arise from activities that aren’t part of the company’s primary operations