FIFO and LIFO Are the Two Most Common Cost Flow

question 88

Essay

FIFO and LIFO are the two most common cost flow assumptions made in costing inventories. The amounts assigned to the same inventory items on hand may be different under each cost flow assumption. If a company has no beginning inventory explain the difference in ending inventory values under the FIFO and LIFO cost bases when the price of inventory items purchased during the period have been (1) increasing (2) decreasing and (3) remained constant.

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Definitions:

Goods And Services

Goods and services constitute the output of an economy, where goods are tangible products and services are intangible activities that provide value to consumers.

Scarcity

The limited nature of society’s resources.

Trade-Offs

Situations where having more of one thing necessarily means having less of another because of limited resources.

Allocate

The process of distributing resources or goods among various uses or individuals based on specific criteria, such as need or merit.