Definitions for "Last In First Out"
Keywords:  lifo, inventory, newest, sold, assumes
A method of stock control whereby the goods which are the newest in stock are consumed or sold first.
Assumes that the last item of stock received is the first to be used. In the UK it is a little-used method of pricing the issue of material using the purchase price of the latest unit in stock. It is used more often in the USA as a method of valuing stock using indices to charge most recent prices against profits.
inventory accounting in which the most recently acquired items are assumed to be the first sold
The result of a typical material or information flow system without  FIFO, resulting in earlier orders being perpetually delayed by new orders arriving on top of them.