ACCT 115 Chapter 6: Accounting Chapter Six

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Accounting for merchandise inventories: perpetual inventory system sale, cost of goods sold, and inventory is always up-to-date, periodic inventory system. Ending balance of last period = beginning balance of new period. Beginning balance + purchases = cost of goods sold + ending balance. Inventory goods that are purchased for the purpose of resale to customers. Appears immediately below accounts receivable on the balance sheet. Control account a general ledger account that summarizes the content of a specific subsidiary ledger. Subsidiary ledger a ledger containing separate accounts for each of the items making up the balance of a control account in the general ledger. The total of the account balances in a subsidiary ledger are equal to the balance in the general ledger control account. As inventory is purchased, it is recorded as an asset in the balance sheet. As it is sold, this asset is converted to an expense (cost of goods sold)

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