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Weighted average costing is one among many different types of inventory cost accounting methods that companies use. Other common methods include the more common last-in, first-out, or LIFO method, and ...

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.

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