Last-in, first-out (LIFO) and first-in, first-out (FIFO) are two common inventory valuation methods used by companies in accounting. Inventory valuation is the process of assigning value to materials, ...

Businesses produce revenues through selling their goods and services to interested customers. To acquire the products intended for sale, businesses must either manufacture or purchase them from their ...

Zaw Thiha Tun is currently an investment advisor for PI Financial Corp. He is also a financial writer on a wide variety of topics. LIFO is banned under IFRS due to potential financial distortions.

Anna Baluch is a freelance writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She enjoys writing about a variety of health and personal finance topics. When she's away from her laptop, she can be found working out, trying ...

Manufacturers, processors, wholesalers, jobbers, distributors and other companies that have a substantial portion of their assets in the form of inventory have an opportunity to improve their cash ...

The Tax Court held that a business taxpayer’s automatic consent request to change from the last-in, first-out (LIFO) inventory method failed due to defects in its Form 3115, Application for Change in ...

Few differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP loom larger than accounting for inventories, particularly the disallowance of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method in IFRS. The proposed shift of U.S. public ...