Discover why IFRS prohibits LIFO accounting, including issues like distorted financials, outdated inventory values, and potential earnings manipulation.

When you decide to sell a portion of your holdings in a stock, you have to decide which shares you actually want to sell. Two of the most common methods used in this decision are known as FIFO and ...

The acronyms FIFO and LIFO identify methods for figuring the cost of goods sold when the price of your inventory has changed over time. With LIFO, you determine the price by assuming the most recent ...

On May 1st, I posted about Haverty’s earnings release. Two things popped out at me in that quarterly report. First, Haverty’s decided to push credit to sell furniture instead of lowering prices and ...

Through the representation of the assets that a company owns and the liabilities it owes to others, the balance sheet illustrates an organization's financial well-being. The balance sheet also ...

When you decide to sell a portion of your holdings in a stock, you have to decide which shares you actually want to sell. Two of the most common methods used in this decision are known as FIFO and ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance ...

Summer is when we get to catch up on our reading, and this year's list included articles on what, if anything, to do about inventory accounting because of international convergence. All sorts of ...

Every crypto investor eventually faces an important question: When I sell my crypto, how do I determine which coins I have actually sold? Because each of these digital assets is purchased at different ...