Jan 2005 bought 10@ $30
April 2005 bought 10@$34
October 2005 bought 20@$40
May 2005 sold 8@$50
Nov 2005 sold 24@$60

Required to show the comparison of the closing stock at the end of the year by using fifo, lifo, average costion method

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What is the method used for inventory valuation - periodic or perpetual? First try to solve yourself and post your answers. Help will be available for corrections.

Here are some examples:
Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold | AccountingCoach.com (http://www.accountingcoach.com/online-accounting-course/12Xpg01.html)

Because there are 3 methods here, plus each could be perpetual or periodic, you're talking about 6 things in total. That is an entire chapter and a lot to try to show someone from scratch. That's why I gave the link.

You can try them one at a time, have them checked, see how you do, and then move on to the next.

please correct the mistake for this question.


fifo

jan 95 10@ $30 stock valuation 10@$30= 300

April 95 10@ $34 stock valuation 10@$30
10@$34= 640

oct 95 20@$40 stock valuation 10@ $30
10@$34
10@$40 = 1440

may 95 unit out 8@$50 stock valuation 12$34
20$40= 1208

nov 95 unit out 24@$60 stock valuation 20$40= 800



LIFO

jan 95 10@$30 stock valuation 10$30= 300

apr 95 10@$34 stock valuation 10$30
10$34=640

oct 95 20@$40 stock valuation 10$30
10$34
20$40= 1440

may 95 unit out 8@$50 stock valuation 10$30
10$34
12$40= 1120

nov 95 unit out 24@$50 stock valuation 10$ 30
10$34= 640

I'm going to say first that the way you've presented the information is a bit on the confusing side. You also have never indicated whether you are supposed to be doing periodic or perpetual. It actually looks like you're valuating using costs periodically, but presenting the info as though you're doing perpetual. As I said, the way the info is presented is confusing and I'm not even sure which method you're trying to do. Meaning, I can't tell you everything you're doing incorrectly, can't tell you how to do it correctly, nor what any actual answers are.

There are, however, certain things I can tell you.



fifo

jan 95 10@ $30 stock valuation 10@$30= 300

April 95 10@ $34 stock valuation 10@$30
10@$34= 640

oct 95 20@$40 stock valuation 10@ $30
10@$34
10@$40 = 1440

The information would never be presented as above. If you were doing perpetual, you would have to stop after April and figure in the sale that was made, not continue on to the next purchase. If you were doing periodic, there would be no need at all to show the Jan and Apr valuations separately like that - you'd only need to show how all three of them come out. For instance, the info you have on purchases is:

Jan 10 @ $30 = $300
April 10 @ $34 = 340
Oct 20 @ $20 = $800
= total of $1440

You would only have to split that all apart if you're doing perpetual, and as I said, in that case you have to stop after April and show the sale. This is part of what makes the info confusing. Also -- your columns didn't show up. People post and never look at what they post to see if it's legible.


may 95 unit out 8@$50 stock valuation 12$34
20$40= 1208

You're valuing inventory and showing what costs will be used when you sell something. The retail price is irrelevant to that -- don't present it at all because it adds to the confusion and makes it look like you're using that $50 for something when you're not.

I would like to know how you got 12 units @ $34 left over in inventory when you never had that many to begin with. You only had 10 units at $34. You can't create more by selling some. The problem is that people insist on keeping these price categories together as lump sums. i.e. you sold 8 - you knew they cost $30, but you don't want to take the $30 ones and split it between 8 sold and 2 unsold. So instead you just said there's 12 of the $34 ones left when there weren't 12 at all. You still have 2 of the $30 ones. Do you see that? And you have all 10 of the $34 ones. (And all of the $40 ones also.)


nov 95 unit out 24@$60 stock valuation 20$40= 800

Your math doesn't work. You need to stop and think about that. You had 32 units total before this second sale. You are now selling 24. So how do you have 20 units left? Again, I think it's because you don't want to take that $40 price category and split them apart. They aren't glued together. Literally see the inventory sitting around. You happen to purchase 20 units all at the same time at $40. But you aren't allowed to sell some of them and have some of them left over, just because they were purchased at the same price? Think about that for a while, because it doesn't make any sense.

(Although you aren't necessarily doing anything I haven't seen a trillion other people do. The problem is they're always thinking "abstract accounting stuff" somewhere in the back of their head, instead of picturing the logic behind what is actually going on. Picture the warehouse and watch the units moving in and out, and stop thinking about "accounting.")




LIFO

may 95 unit out 8@$50 stock valuation 10$30
10$34
12$40= 1120

This isn't going to work this way. If you're doing periodic, you would not stop and take out only the 8 you sold in May. You would do everything all at once at the end of the year. I have a feeling you're attempting to do perpetual. If that is the case, if you follow the dates in order, you did not even have the $40 ones in May when the first sale was made, right?

So you need to determine which method you're using. I can't tell you what specifically is wrong if I don't know what method you're using. Rehmanvohra specifically asked which method, and I also mentioned there were two. But you haven't answered that question.


nov 95 unit out 24@$50 stock valuation 10$ 30
10$34= 640

Again... you sold 24 total out of 32. So how can you sell 24 of 32 and have 20 left? I know it's because you simply won't break apart those price categories. But look at your final answer. You had 10 at $30, 10 at $34 and 12 at $40. Then you sell 24 of them, but the only thing you dropped off the inventory was the 12 at $40. That doesn't mathematically work.

jan 2005 bought 10@ $30
april 2005 bought 10@$34
october 2005 bought 20@$40
May 2005 sold 8@$50
nov 2005 sold 24@$60

required to show the comparison of the closing stock at the end of the year by using fifo, lifo, average costing method. perpetual

please hepl me out of this question


My answer is :


Fifo


Jan : unit in 10@ 30 stock valuation 300

Apr : unit in 10@34 stock valuation 640

May : unit out 8@ $50 stock valuation 408

Oct : unit in 20@$40 stock valuation 1208

Nov : unit out 24@$60 stock valuation 1280



Lifo

Oct : unit in 20@$40 stock valuation 1208

Nov : unit out 24@$60 stock valuation 408



Average costing method


Date transaction num of items unit cost total cost

Jan bought 10 $30 $300


Apr bought 10 $34 $340


May sold 8 $50 $400

Oct bought 20 $40 $800

Nov sold 24 $ 60 $ 1440


Total 72 $ 3280




Please correct the mistake

jan : unit in 10@ 30 stock valuation 300

apr : unit in 10@34 stock valuation 640


It just simply doesn't work this way. In April you have both the 10 @ $30 AND the 10 @ $34. Where did the original 10 go? Think about that. They went nowhere, so you still have them.

However, I'm not saying anything else or spending any time on this until you state whether this is supposed to be perpetual or periodic. It's been mentioned like three times by two of us now, and you've been ignoring the fact that we need that information. How you work it out will depend on that method. So not only do we need the information, but I feel like I'm just wasting my breath.