#cost of goods sold

Cost of goods sold (COGS) is the direct cost of producing the goods sold by a company. It includes the cost of the materials and labor directly used to create the good sold. The documents here cover how to calculate COGS, the components that make it up, and how different inventory methods like LIFO and FIFO affect it. They also include examples of journal entries for sales and comparisons of periodic and perpetual inventory systems.