The difference between the selling price of an item and its replacement cost at the time of sale is called the _____________________.

The inventories of a manufacturing company include __________________.

The portion of merchandise that is available for sale or use and that is allocated to the current period's usage is called the _______________.

The procedure whereby a manufacturing firm charges the fixed production cost to the period rather than assigning it as a cost of the product is called ____________________.

The ______________________ is the estimated selling price of the inventory less any estimated costs for making the item ready for sale and actually selling it.

Which of the following is a method for assigning cost in which a firm can physically match individual units sold with a specific purchase?

Variable costing (direct costing) is acceptable for use in determining inventory cost by _________________.

Which of the following cost flow assumptions assigns the costs of the earliest units acquired to the withdrawals, and the costs of the most recent acquisitions to the ending inventory?

Which of the following concepts states that gains (or losses) caused by increases (or decreases) in the market value of assets should not appear in the income until a firm sells the particular assets?