The Units of an Item Available for Sale During the Year

question 21

Essay

The units of an item available for sale during the year were as follows:
There are 48 units of the item in the physical inventory at December 31. The periodic inventory system is used. Determine the inventory cost by (a) the first-in, first-out method, (b) the last-in, first-out method, and (c) the average cost method. Show your work.

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Definitions:

Implicit Cost

The monetary income a firm sacrifices when it uses a resource it owns rather than supplying the resource in the market; equal to what the resource could have earned in the best-paying alternative employment; includes a normal profit.

Forgone Rent

The potential income lost by choosing to use a property or resource in a way that is not financially optimal, such as using land for personal use instead of renting it out.

Rental Payments

Regular payments made by a tenant to an owner for the use of the owner's property or land.

Accounting Profit

The total revenue of a firm less its explicit costs; the profit (or net income) that appears on accounting statements and that is reported to the government for tax purposes.