ACCT 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Perpetual Inventory, Gross Profit, Sales Tax

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Service companies perform services as their primary source of revenue. The operating cycle is the time it takes to go from cash to cash in producing revenue. It is longer for a merchandising company than for a service company. This is because the merchandise must first be purchased before it can be sold; this adds an additional step to the cycle. Revenue sales revenue (from the sale of merchandise) is the main source. Cost of goods sold total cost of merchandise sold in a period. Operating expenses incurred in the process of earning sales revenue. Gross profit sales revenue less cost of goods sold. The flow of costs of a merchandising company is as follows: Beginning inventory + purchases = cost of goods available for sale. Once sold, these costs are assigned to cost of goods sold. One of two systems is used to account for inventory and cost of goods sold:

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