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Sontag Appliance Co. uses a perpetual inventory system. Shown below are Sontag's beginning inventory of a particular product and purchases during the month of January Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost Beginning Inventory (Jan. 1) 2 $180 $360 Purchase (Jan. 6) 4 210 840 Purchase (Jan. 25) 4 215 860 10 $2,060 On January 23, Sontag sold five units of this product. Using the three flow assumptions listed below, determine (1) the cost of goods sold, and (2) the cost of the five units in inventory at January 31. Show your computations. a) LIFO b) FIFO c) Average cost
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solution :-
(a) LIFO Method
Under LIFO recent purchases are used for sales .
date of sale = 23rd january
so we can utilise 4 units from the purchase lot of jan 16, and 1 unit from the beginning inventory
Hence cost of goods sold = 4 * $ 210 + 1 * $ 180 = $ 1,020
In this case closing stock of five units contain 4 units from the purchase lot of jan 25 and 1 unit from the beginning inventory
so cost of inventory for five units = 1*$ 180 + 4*$ 215 = $ 1,040
(b) FIFO Method
Under FIFO method oldest stocks are used for sales.
so we can utilise 2 units from the beginning inventory and 2 units from the purchase lot of jan 16
hence, cost of goods sold = 2*$ 180 + 3*$ 210 = $ 780
in this case closing stock of 5 units containg 1 unit from the purchase lot of jan 16 and 4 units from the purchase lot of jan 25
so cost for 5 units of closing stock = 1*$210 + 4*$ 215 = $ 1,070
( c) Average cost method
In this method we use average cost for stocks
Total inventory in stock = 6 units
Purchase cost for these 6 units = $ 360+$ 840 = $ 1,200
Per unit average cost = $ 1,200 / 6 = $ 200
Cost of goods sold = 5 * $200 = $ 1,000
Closing inventory of stock contains 4 units from the recent purchase lot of jan 25 @ $ 215 per unit and one unit from the earlier inventory with an average cost of $ 200
Hence cost for 5 units of closing stock = $ 200 + $ 860 = $ 1,060
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