There continue to be rumblings that Congress may repeal the LIFO accounting method for inventory. If that happens, companies using the last-in-first-out method may have to pay back LIFO savings ...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a Tax Court finding that the consistent omission of a step when computing inventory cost under the dollar-value ...

The food industry is gathering data to fight efforts in Congress toward the possible repeal of the LIFO method of inventory accounting — proposals that could mean not only higher taxes on inventory ...

WIRE uses LIFO accounting for inventory which overstates earnings during periods of declining copper prices, and understates when copper prices climb. Q4 average copper pricing increased sequentially ...

The conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards, coupled with the movement towards fair value accounting and Congress' need for revenue, could result in the repeal of the ...

Accounting and parts tracking can be some of the most challenging chores for fleet managers. To help, Fleetio added new inventory valuation methods to its list of offerings on Tuesday — LIFO / FIFO ...

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, ...

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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 ...