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Lecture Documents Accounting - Methods OF Recording Receivables
Course: Intro To Accounting (AC 210)
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METHODS OF RECORDING RECEIVABLES
The company's inventory is recorded and recognized at the purchase price, not the
selling price. The purchase price is the price listed on the purchase invoice. If in
the purchase transaction there are additional expenses such as purchase freight, it
will be recorded in a separate account, namely the purchase freight account. If in
the purchase transaction the company obtains a purchase discount, it must be
recorded in a separate account, the purchase discount account. Although these
accounts will eventually be summed when calculating the cost of goods sold, but
basically the inventory of merchandise must be recorded at the purchase price. In
general, there are two methods that are used to calculate and record inventories
related to the calculation of cost of goods sold: physical method physical method
or also called the periodic method is a method of inventory management, where
the outflow of goods is not recorded in detail so that to determine the value of
inventory at a certain moment must do Peng count of physical goods (stock
opname) in the warehouse. The use of physical methods requires accounting for
existing (remaining) goods at the end of the accounting period when compiling
financial statements. - Initial inventory of goods xxx-purchase xxxx-total
inventory xxxxx-final inventory (xx) - cost of goods sold xxx cost of goods sold is
the purchase price or total cost of production of a number of goods that have been
sold in a given period. To determine the cost of goods sold in a given period, it
must be known the volume and value of final inventory in that period. And to
know the value of the final inventory, must be calculated physically (stock-
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