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Cost-flow assumptions—FIFO and LIFO using periodic and perpetual systems The inventory rec...

Cost-flow assumptions—FIFO and LIFO using periodic and perpetual systems The inventory records of Cushing, Inc., reflected the following information for the year ended December 31, 2010:

 

Number of Units

Unit Cost

Total Cost

Inventory, January 1

  200

$13

$ 2,600

Purchases:

 

 

 

May 30

  320

15

4,800

September 28

  400

16

6,400

Goods available for sale

  920

 

$13,800

Sales:

 

 

 

February 22

  (140)

 

 

June 11

  (300)

 

 

November 1 

  (380)

 

 

Inventory, December 31

  100

 

 

Required:

a. Assume that Cushing, Inc., uses a periodic inventory system. Calculate cost of goods sold and ending inventory under FIFO and LIFO.


b. Assume that Cushing, Inc., uses a perpetual inventory system. Calculate cost of goods sold and ending inventory under FIFO and LIFO.


c. Explain why the FIFO results for cost of goods sold and ending inventory are the same in your answers to parts a and b, but the LIFO results are different.


d. Explain why the results from the LIFO periodic calculations in part a cannot possibly represent the actual physical flow of inventory items.

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