ACCT 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Income Statement, Accrual, Operating Expense
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The oldest costs are in cost of goods sold and the newest costs are in. The oldest costs are in inventory and the newest costs are in cost of goods sold using the lifo method. Now that you"ve seen how these cost flow assumptions work and that they actually make a difference in a company"s balance sheet and income statement, we are ready for a more complex example. So, let"s assume that during the first week of october american eagle entered into the following transactions for its henley t-shirt product line. All sales were made at a selling price of per unit. American eagle made two batches of t-shirt purchases, which were added to beginning inventory. The costing methods differ only in the way they split the cost of goods available for sale between ending inventory and cost of goods sold. Inventory, it doesn"t go into cost of goods sold.