My company is Costco Wholesales.

Their SEC 10-K is on the website:

https://investor.costco.com/node/21596/html

Review your SEC 10-K company's balance sheet (statement of position) and income statement (statement of earnings). Your SEC 10-K company should have inventory reported on the balance sheet and Cost of Goods Sold reported on the income statements.

Each time inventory is sold, two transactions occur:revenues (sales) are recorded, and inventory is used up to become an expense.This means two journal entries are recorded:

DRCash (or accounts receivable if on account)

CRSales

(to record sales revenues earned)

DRCost of Goods Sold

CR Inventory

(To record inventory becoming the expense of the sale)

Consider the impact of recording these transactions.What key profit factor do you learn from this journal entry?

Provide a summary of the accounting concepts learned through the readings and practice quizzes for this week.Demonstrate your understanding of the week's concepts.The more detailed your write-up documenting your understanding the higher it will be graded.(See Rubric for details.)

After addressing the above topics, additional topics you can incorporate into your weekly homework assignment:

• Why do companies go through a closing process? What accounts are closed in that process?Are they really closed and 'erased' from the accounting system?
• Discuss the additional accounting issues faced by merchandisers/retailers that service companies do not address.
• What does a system of internal controls achieve?(You can apply this to internal controls over cash, or a general discussion of internal controls.)
• What topic(s) gave you trouble this week (if any)?/What topic(s) do you feel you were able to grasp?Post questions in the homework discussion thread!