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FIFO METHOD

1. Charley's, a local dairy store, maintains milk inventory by the gallon. The first
month’s milk purchases and sales at its Chazy, NY, location follow:
November 2 Purchased 7 gallons at $2.00 each.
November 6 Purchased 7 gallons at $2.40 each.
November 8 Sold 7 gallons of milk to customers.
November 13 Purchased 2 gallons at $2.90 each.
November 14 Sold 6 gallons of milk to customers.
Determine the amount that would be reported in ending merchandise inventory and
amount of Cost of Goods sold on November 15 using the FIFO inventory costing
method.

Consider the following:

 April 01: Inventories on hand are 50 units at $2 and 100 units at $4.50

 April 05: Purchased 100 units at $1.80

 April 06: 10 units of inventories purchased on 5 April at $1.80 are


returned to the supplier

 April 10: 80 units issued to factory

 April 15: 50 units issued to factory

 April 20: 20 units purchased at $1.50

 April 25: 70 units issued to factory

 April 30: 50 units purchased at $1.70

 April 30: 10 units returned to store out of units issued to the factory on
25 April
2. Bike LTD purchased 10 bikes during January and sold 6 bikes, details of which are as
follows:
January 1 Purchased 5 bikes @ $50 each
January 5 Sold 2 bikes
January 10 Sold 1 bike
January 15 Purchased 5 bikes @ 70 each
January 25 Sold 3 bikes
The value of 4 bikes held as inventory at the end of January may be calculated
as follows:
The sales made on January 5 and 10 were clearly made from purchases on 1st
January. Of the sales made on January 25, it will be assumed that 2 bikes relate
to purchases on January 1 whereas the remaining one bike has been issued
from the purchases on 15th January. Therefore, the value of inventory under
FIFO 

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