
Concept explainers
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Perpetual Inventory System refers to the inventory system that maintains the detailed records of every inventory transactions related to purchases and sales on a continuous basis. It shows the exact on-hand-inventory at any point of time.
FIFO: Under this inventory method, the units that are purchased first, are sold first. Thus, it starts from the selling of the beginning inventory, followed by the units purchased in a chronological order of their purchases took place during a particular period.
Average cost method: Under this method, the cost of the goods available for sale is divided by the number of units available for sale during a particular period.
To calculate: the ending inventory and the cost of goods sold for January using FIFO.
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To calculate: the ending inventory and the cost of goods sold for January using average cost.

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