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Companies have used the retail method of inventory accounting for many years. According to the Committee on Ways and Means, the retail inventory method has been the best accounting method since 1941.

A small business may use the conventional retail inventory method to track costs of purchasing products from manufacturers and sale prices to consumers. This inventory method is useful for a small ...

Learn about the methods of calculating and tracking inventory that are used in retail accounting.