How a business makes sales is also a factor in how much leverage it employs. On the other hand, a firm with a high volume of sales and lower margins are less leveraged. Leverage is used as a funding source when investing to expand a firm's asset base...
To date, 105 of the company’s product have been purchased. Using the FIFO method, they would look at how much each item cost them to produce. Since only 100 items cost them $50.00, the remaining 5 will have to use the higher $55.00 cost number in ord...
The costs paid for those recent products are the ones used in the calculation. Under LIFO, a business records its newest products and inventory as the first items sold. The opposite method is FIFO, where the oldest inventory is recorded as the first ...
The results further indicate that the respondents perceived faithful representation and relevance as having greater potential of enhancing the quality of financial reporting, with an average mean score of 3.2 and 3.1 respectively. Findings also revea...
Also known as mark-to-market, fair value accounting is one of the most widely recognized valuation standards that becomes increasingly important when the company is sold, or assets are acquired. Under US GAAP (FAS 157), fair value is the amount at wh...