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Periodic Inventory Using FIFO, LIFO, and Weighted Average Cost Methods
The units of an item available for sale during the year were as follows:
Jan. 1 | Inventory | 13 | units at $44 | $572 |
Aug. 7 | Purchase | 18 | units at $46 | 828 |
Dec. 11 | Purchase | 12 | units at $48 | 576 |
43 | units | $1,976 |
There are 16 units of the item in the physical inventory at December 31. The periodic inventory system is used. Determine the inventory cost using (a) the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method; (b) the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method; and (c) the weighted average cost method (round per unit cost to two decimal places and your final answer to the nearest whole dollar).
a. | First-in, first-out (FIFO) | $ |
b. | Last-in, first-out (LIFO) | $ |
c. | Weighted average cost | $ |