Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• FIRST-IN FIRST-OUT
  
  Is the accounting technique whereby the first items in inventory are paired against the first items sold out of inventory. Speculative futures transactions are treated this way. Securities transactions can be treated this way in the absence of further instructions. See Versus Purchase.
  
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