Question: 1. What is meant by the assertion that the lower-of-cost-or-market method is an example of conservatism in accounting?
2. What is the inventory turnover ratio? What is it designed to measure?
3. How is gross profit calculated? What is the gross profit ratio? What is it designed to measure?
4. Explain how the sale of inventory on account is recorded under a periodic system. How does this differ from the recording under a perpetual system?
5. What are the purposes of the period-end adjustment under the periodic inventory system?