Case scenario: You are a newly hired accountant for Sushi Beeber, Inc., a retail company specializing in apparel for small pets. The company would like to expand its apparel line to include sweaters for cats. Sushi Beeber has found several manufacturers that offer competitive prices to ensure cost of goods sold is low. Because the company receives merchandise from different manufacturers and the cat sweaters will be commoditized, the company needs to develop an internal accounting system to keep track of inventory cost. You think that the weighted average cost method may help the company stay up-to-date with the inventory cost as purchase cost changes over time. Your task is to create a spreadsheet that can calculate the inventory cost based on purchases and sales for the month.

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Conditional logic: Because a new record can be either a "purchase" or a "sale", you need to handle these two situations differently; you need to apply conditional logic through If statements:

In E3, create an If statement that will be equal to 1 if B3 is a purchase and equal to -1 if B3 is a sale.

In F3, create an If statement that will be equal to 1 if B3 is a purchase and 0 otherwise.

In G3, create an If statement that will be equal to 1 if B3 is a sale and 0 otherwise.

Find units on hand: in H3, create an equation that calculates the updated units on hand: if B3 is a purchase, updated units on hand =H2+C3; if B3 is a sale, updated units on hand =H2-C3.

Find inventory cost:

In I3, if B3 is a purchase, the cost of the purchase =C3*D3. Otherwise, 0.

In J3, if B3 is a sale, the cost of the sale =C3*L2. Otherwise, 0.

Hint: We use L2 as the unit cost because the amount in L2 is the starting weighted-average cost.

In K3, the updated inventory cost =K2+I3-J3.

Weighted Average Cost in L3 = Inventory Total Cost/Units on hand.

Find the inventory total cost and weighted average cost for the month, i.e., all of the records of data. Enter values for the next eight rows, Row 3 through 10, in the table below. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest cent.

		Inventory	Weighted
Date	Purchase/Sale	Total Cost	Average Cost
1-Oct	Purchase
1-Oct	Sale
3-Oct	Purchase
4-Oct	Purchase
4-Oct	Sale
4-Oct	Purchase
7-Oct	Sale
7-Oct	Purchase

Explain how conditional logic is used in this spreadsheet and how it might be done differently.