ACC 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Deferral, Income Statement, Equity Method

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Which cfa to use depends on which financial statement is deemed more important. With lifo you have the most up to date cost of goods sold, and therefore lifo is considered to give a better measure of income than fifo. Fifo gives a better measure of ending inventory. Fifo presumes you"re selling earliest merch first, and therefore what you have left in the ending inventory is the most recent purchases, and up to date cost. If company wants to record high profits on its financial statements, they will want low. Cgs, therefore they would want to use fifo for financial reporting. For tax accounting, a company would want to low profits, and therefore a high cgs, so they would want to use lifo. Companies can usually use both depending on the above, except with inventory. Lifo conformity rule, if a company uses lifo for tax reporting, they must use.

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