The specific identification method of costing inventories is used when the

Explanation: The specific identification method of costing inventories is used when finding out the cost of the ending inventory.

This method is used to identify when an item is bought and sold and what items are remaining in the store and how to allocate the cost price of item bought at a particular point in time. This is mainly useful when cal calculating the ending inventory.

company sells a limited quantity of high-unit cost items

Explanation:

Specific identification is a method of finding out ending inventory cost and  requires detailed physical count in order for that company to know how exactly many of each goods  that was brought on specific dates remained at year end inventor.

Specific identification inventory valuation can be used when a  company sells a limited quantity of high-unit cost items. It is often used for larger items such as furniture or vehicles. It is used for items that usually have widely differing features, and are of  limited quality and have high costs associated with it distinguished features.