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Analyzing the Effects of Four Alternative Inventory Methods (P7-2)Dixon Company uses a per...

Analyzing the Effects of Four Alternative Inventory Methods (P7-2)

Dixon Company uses a periodic inventory system. At the end of the annual accounting period, December 31, 2011, the accounting records for the most popular item in inventory showed the following:

Transactions

Units

Unit Cost

Beginning inventory, January 1, 2011

390

$32

Transactions during 2011:

 

 

a. Purchase, February 20

700

34

b. Purchase. June 30

460

37

c. Sale ($50 each)

(70)

 

d. Sale ($50 each)

(750)

 

Required:

Compute the cost of (a) goods available for sale, (b) ending inventory, and (c) goods sold at December 31, 2011, under each of the following inventory costing methods (show computations and round to the nearest dollar):

1. Average cost (round average cost per unit to the nearest cent).

2. First-in, first-out.

3. Last-in, first-out.

4. Specific identification, assuming that the first sale was selected two-fifths from the beginning inventory and three-fifths from the purchase of February 20, 2011. Assume that the second sale was selected from the remainder of the beginning inventory, with the balance from the purchase of June 30, 2011.

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