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Detailed explanation-1: -What Is a Perpetual Inventory System? A perpetual inventory system is a program that continuously estimates your inventory based on your electronic records, not a physical inventory. This system starts with the baseline from a physical count and updates based on purchases made in and shipments made out.

Detailed explanation-2: -Perpetual inventory continuously tracks and records items as they are added to or subtracted from the inventory. And it keeps track of the cost of goods purchased and sold. Physical inventory uses a periodic schedule to manually count and record items and keep track of the cost of what’s bought and sold.

Detailed explanation-3: -Under the perpetual system, two transactions are recorded at the time that the merchandise is sold: (1) the amount of the sale is debited to Accounts Receivable or Cash and is credited to Sales, and (2) the cost of the merchandise sold is debited to the account Cost of Goods Sold and is credited to Inventory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Periodic inventory is an accounting inventory method where inventory and cost of goods sold are calculated at the end of an accounting period rather than on a daily basis.