When Valuing Items in Inventory for Financial Reporting Purposes, Generally

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When valuing items in inventory for financial reporting purposes, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) requires firms to value the cost of goods sold by assuming that the items that have been in inventory the longest are the ones that are sold first.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used as the basis for z-scores in statistics.

Standard Deviation

A metric that calculates how much a dataset's values spread out or diverge from their average.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a type of continuous probability distribution where data points are symmetrically distributed around the mean, forming a bell-shaped curve.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a data set, representing the average squared deviation from the mean.