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Accounting and parts tracking can be some of the most challenging chores for fleet managers. To help, Fleetio added new inventory valuation methods to its list of offerings on Tuesday — LIFO / FIFO ...

Inventory is recorded on your company's balance sheet as a short-term asset. The fixed period inventory system is a method you can use to record and track your company's inventory and adjust the ...

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FIFO (first in, first out) is the most common method of accounting for inventory. It assumes that the first items in were the first items sold. When inventory is used to create products, there is ...

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