Davis Hardware Company uses a periodic inventory system. How should Davis record the sale of inventory costing $620 for $960 on account? 1. Cost of Goods Sold 620 Purchases 620 Accounts Receivable 960 Sales Revenue 960 2. Accounts Receivable 960 Sales Revenue 960 3. Purchases 620 Gain 340 Sales Revenue 960 4. Accounts Receivable 960 Sales Revenue 620 Gain 340

Accounts Receivable 960 Sales Revenue 960

Explanation: Periodic Inventory system involves taking physical count of inventory at specific intervals. The periodic Inventory system is only usually adopted in markets with low patronage or slow moving markets and where stock isn't large or cumbersome where the perpetual inventory system is usually adopted as it takes real-time, continuous update of inventory usually with the aid of a database management system.

In the periodic Inventory system, Account Receivable (claims of payment held by a business) will be the same as the sales revenue (cost generated from goods sold).

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.