Inventory Pricing Methods

When working with inventories, there are four main pricing methods: FIFO, LIFO, Averaged Price, and Actual Price. All four of these will be used.

Complete each of the pricing methods. Find the cost of goods sold for each.

Use the following information for this assignment:

- The restaurant in question sells a salad that used cannellini beans. The salad is so popular that lots of jars of the beans must always be on hand, which the restaurant orders from an Italian importer by the case. Each case contains 12 jars at 16 ounces each. Each salad gets about 2 ounces of beans. - On March 8th, 2013, the restaurant ordered 4 cases and the cost for each was $40.

On March 15th, the restaurant ordered 8 cases at the same cost. On March 22nd, because of rising gas prices, the restaurant had to pay $50 for each of the 12 cases it ordered. That same price applied for the final order of the month on the 29th, when the restaurant ordered another 12 cases. - At the beginning of the month, 2 cases were on-hand, and at the end, 3.5 were available.

Considering the results of each pricing method you just completed, which would you choose to use if you were the manager of a restaurant with these numbers? Why?