Accounting for Futures

It is June 30. You have just purchased $1,000,000 of inventory. Dr. Inventory 1,000,000. Cr. Cash 1,000,000. You will sell the inventory on Jan 1. The current selling price is 1,500,000, but you don’t know what the price will be six months from now. You enter into a futures contract (at no cost) to sell the inventory in six months at 1,500,000. ................
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