{"id":3600,"date":"2020-10-21T16:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-financialaccounting\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=3600"},"modified":"2020-10-30T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:01:50","slug":"introduction-to-inventory-cost-flow-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/chapter\/introduction-to-inventory-cost-flow-assumptions\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions","rendered":"Introduction to Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0Establish the cost of items in inventory<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5107\/2020\/10\/30190040\/woman-3040029_1920.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4660\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5107\/2020\/10\/30190040\/woman-3040029_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding shopping bags.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe term <em>cost flow assumptions<\/em> refers to the manner in which costs are removed from a company's inventory and are reported as the COGS. In the U.S., the common cost flow assumptions are First-in, First-out (FIFO), Last-in, First-out (LIFO), and average. Additionally, there are ways to estimate ending inventory, such as the retail inventory method, and it is possible to assign costs to inventory using the actual cost of each item (specific identification method).","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0Establish the cost of items in inventory<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5107\/2020\/10\/30190040\/woman-3040029_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4660\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5107\/2020\/10\/30190040\/woman-3040029_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding shopping bags.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term <em>cost flow assumptions<\/em> refers to the manner in which costs are removed from a company&#8217;s inventory and are reported as the COGS. In the U.S., the common cost flow assumptions are First-in, First-out (FIFO), Last-in, First-out (LIFO), and average. Additionally, there are ways to estimate ending inventory, such as the retail inventory method, and it is possible to assign costs to inventory using the actual cost of each item (specific identification method).<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-3600\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Joseph Cooke. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: gonghuimin468. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/woman-shopping-lifestyle-beautiful-3040029\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/woman-shopping-lifestyle-beautiful-3040029\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions\",\"author\":\"Joseph Cooke\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"gonghuimin468\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/woman-shopping-lifestyle-beautiful-3040029\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"2ecb4f83-4303-430c-b407-e7de5561bcf1","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-3600","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":102,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3600\/revisions\/4663"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/102"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3600\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}