Determining the cost or valuation of inventory held in a company is an important management task. Inventory often represents a large portion of total assets on the balance sheet and the method used to ...

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Managers have many choices when it comes to accounting for inventory. Regardless of whether your small business uses a periodic or perpetual system, you must establish a method to determine the cost ...

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Home Depot, Inc. announced a key change in accounting principals in its third quarter filing with the SEC. After adopting a new enterprise resource planning system, otherwise known in the ...

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