Reorganizing the Channel of Distribution Can Help Overcome Price Escalation

question 20

True/False

Reorganizing the channel of distribution can help overcome price escalation.

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Definitions:

Average-cost Method

The average-cost method is an inventory costing method that assigns an average cost to each item in inventory, used to determine the cost of goods sold and ending inventory values.

Weighted-average Cost Method

This inventory costing method assigns a weighted average cost to each unit in inventory, used to calculate cost of goods sold and ending inventory.

Lower-of-cost-or-market

An accounting principle that states assets should be recorded at the lower value of either its cost or its market value.

Specific Identification

An accounting method used to track and assign costs to individual inventory items.