Accounting Dictionary - Letter P

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Periodic inventory system
adjusts the inventory account only at the end of an accounting period. Purchases and sales of inventory do not affect the inventory account during the accounting period, but do affect at the end of the period when inventory quantities are established by performing physical inventory counts.
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