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Using FIFO, you calculate the cost of goods sold expense as follows: In short, you use the first three units to calculate cost of goods sold expense. The cost of the ending inventory asset, then, is $106, which is the cost of the most recent acquisition.The $412 total cost of the four units is divided between $306 cost of goods sold expense for the three units sold and the $106 cost of the one unit in ending inventory.The total cost has been accounted for; nothing has fallen between the cracks.he $412 total cost of the four units is divided between $306 cost of goods sold expense for the three units sold and the $106 cost of the one unit in ending inventory. The total cost has been accounted for; nothing has fallen between the cracks.
Under the FIFO method, the oldest costs are assigned to inventory items sold, regardless of whether the sold items were actually purchased at that cost. When the number of inventory items purchased at the oldest cost is sold, the next oldest cost is assigned to sales. For example, if a company buys 10 widgets at $20 each, then buys 10 more at $19 each, the company would assign the $20 cost to the first 10 widgets it sells, then begin to assign the $19 cost. The last in, first out method is the exact opposite of the FIFO method, assigning the most recent inventory costs to items sold.