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Perpetual Inventory System refers to the inventory system that maintains the detailed records of every inventory transactions related to purchases and sales on a continuous basis. It shows the exact on-hand-inventory at any point of time.
In First-in-First-Out method, the cost of initial purchased items are sold first. The value of the ending inventory consists the recent purchased items.
To prepare: a perpetual inventory schedule using FIFO method of inventory costing to determine the cost of ending inventory and cost of goods sold for the month.
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To journalize: the inventory transactions using the FIFO method.
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