In the Average Cost Formula Used in a Periodic Inventory

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In the average cost formula used in a periodic inventory system, the same weighted average cost per unit is used to calculate all of the goods sold during the period.

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Definitions:

Population

In statistics, the entire pool from which a statistical sample is drawn.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a data set, showing how far each point in the set is from the mean and from each other.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that is symmetric about the mean, describing how the values of a variable are distributed, indicating most data falls close to the mean.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic.