International Financial Reporting Standards:
International Financial Reporting Standards shortened as IFRS. These are the rules and principles obeyed or followed globally; so to devise financial statements or to record transactions and events in the books of accounts by the companies.
United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles:
It is generally known with the name US GAAP and as the name suggests, US GAAP comprises of the guidelines or rules to prepare financial reports by the companies in United States so to maintain uniformity in accounting practices in the country.
Cost Flow Assumption:
The cost flow assumption defines a method to conclude the flow of cost in case of estimating the costs relating to that of goods sold and of ending inventory.
Merchandise Inventory:
Merchandise inventory is the one which is purchased from the manufacturer with the purpose to sell it to the third party. Wholesalers, retailers, or distributors are ones who indulge into purchasing the products at a lower price and selling them at a higher price so to earn profits.
Lower of Cost or Market:
Lower of cost or market also known as LCM is an approach in which the inventory is recorded in the Balance Sheet at the cost of inventory or at the current market −the one with the lowest value.
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The difference between the IFRS and US GAAP accounting as for the items and costs making merchandise inventory.
b.
To identify: At least two acceptable cost flow assumptions if companies under IFRS apply a cost flow assumption to assign costs to inventory.
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To Identify: The way IFRS and US GAAP differ in accounting for any subsequent decline in the value of inventory after the written down value has been recorded as per LCM.
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