The impact of reduced new-vehicle inventories and the resulting LIFO recapture continues to be a major concern for dealers. The National Automobile Dealers Association has been very active for more ...

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 ...

A mistake made in a taxpayer’s last-in, first-out (LIFO) computation may repeat in later-year returns if staff preparing the computation take a “same as last year” approach. When the mistake ...

How a company values its inventory affects its income statement and bottom line. "Average cost" and "last in, first out," or LIFO, are two of the most common methods for valuing inventory. Both rely ...

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 ...

The company’s net loss shrank to $2.2 million for Q4 FY24 from $33.1 million a year earlier despite weaker sales. However, if we use the internationally dominant FIFO inventory valuation method, ...

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 ...

With 2021 just ended, many dealers are rubbing their hands in delight over their supersized operating profits while scratching their heads over what to do about last in, first out (LIFO) recapture as ...

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 ...