Question

During a reporting period, a computer manufacturing company used raw materials of $50,000, had direct labor costs of $75,000, and factory overhead of $30,000. other expenses were for advertising of $5,000, staff salaries of $10,000, and bad debt of $3,000. the company did not have a beginning balance in any inventory account. all goods manufactured during the period were sold during the period. what amount was the company's cost of goods sold during the reporting period

Answer 1

To calculate the cost of goods sold we use the following formula:
beginning inventory + the cost of goods purchased or manufactured = cost of goods available ending inventory.
Since there was no beginning balance in inventory account and all goods were sold we can assume that cost of goods = total costs for the period. Adding up all costs for the period comes to $173,000.