ACCT1021 Lecture 13: Chapter Seven Lecture Notes (13&14)

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7: reporting & interpreting cost of goods sold & inventory. Introduction: inventory consists of any tangible good owned by the company that (1) is held for sale to customers in the ordinary course of business or (2) is used to produce goods or services for sale. For merchandising companies (retail or wholesale companies), only one inventory classification, merchandise inventories, is needed to describe the many different items that make up the total inventory: in a manufacturing company, inventories may take many forms. In some cases, goods may not yet be ready for sale. As a result, inventory is usually classified into three categories: finished goods, work in process and raw materials: the accounting principles and concepts discussed in this chapter are applicable to each of the above-mentioned inventory classifications. Inventory errors: the accounting treatment of inventories is very important because it affects two major elements: the amount of inventories reported on the.

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