ACCT 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Income Statement, Financial Statement, Interest

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Cost of goods sold = largest expense for merchandising companies. Amounts reported have a material impact on a company"s financial statements. Physical inventory is important in establishing correct amounts. Can purchase identical units of inventory at different costs. Assign costs to both units sold during period and to units left over at end of period. At the beginning of the period, the company had one racket which cost on hand. During the period, the company purchased another identical tennis racket; this racket cost the company. At the end of the period, the company determined that one racket was left on hand, and therefore one racket had been sold. A cost flow assumption is needed to determine which cost, or , will be assigned to the racket sold, and which will be assigned to the racket left on hand. Assumes that units are sold in the same order as they are purchased.

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