6. Company E is a distributor that has experienced increasing costs for units of inventory due to a severe shortage of available goods. Furthermore, the shortage has resulted in the company selling...

6. Company E is a distributor that has experienced increasing costs for units of inventory due to a severe shortage of available goods. Furthermore, the shortage has resulted in the company selling more goods in the first six months of the current year than it had purchased. Given the use of LIFO, why wouldn’t the current year-to-date cost of sales on a per-unit basis have decreased?