Financial Reporting and Analysis: Inventories, Long-Lived Assets, Income Taxes, and Non-Current Liabilities Flashcards
Inventories: Inventory Equation

Inventories: Inventory Costs
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Product costs are capitalized as invntory
- Purchase cost less discount and rebated
- Conversion costs including labor and overhead
- Other costs necessary to bring the inventory to its present location
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Period costs are expenses when incurred
- Abnormal waste
- Storage costs (unless a required production cost)
- Selling and administrative cost
Inventories: Capitalization of Inventory Cost - Example

Inventories: Inventory Cost Flow Methods

Inventories: Inventory Cost Flow - Example

Inventories: Inventory Systems
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Periodic System
- Inventory and COGS are determined at the end of the period
- Beg Inv + Purchases - End Inv = COGS
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Perpetual System
- Inventory and COGS are continuously updates as each sale occurs
- No puchases account needed
Inventories: LIFO vs FIFO Inflationary Environment

Inventories: Inventory Valuation (IFRS)

Inventories: Inventory Valuation (U.S. GAAP)

Inventories: Inventory Valuations
- Under IFRS an U.S. GAAP, reporting inventory above cost is permitted in some industries, primarily producers and dealers of commodity-like products
- Reported on the balance sheet as net reaizable value
- If active market exists, quoted market price is usedl otherwise, recent market transactions are used
- Unrealized gains/losses recognized in the income statement
Inventories: Inventory Disclosures
- Cost flow method used (LIFO, FIFO, etc.)
- Carrying value of inventory in totat and by classification (raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods), if appropriate
- Carrying value of inventory reported at fair value less selling costs
- COGS for the period
- Inventory write-downs for the period
- Reversal of write-downs for the period (IFRS only)
- Carrying value of pledged inventory
Inventories: Profitability Ratios and Inventory Method

Inventories: Liquidity Ratios and Inventory Method

Inventories: Activity Ratios and Inventory Method

Inventories: Leverage Ratios and Inventory Method

Inventories: Inventory Management Ratios

Inventories: Inventory Management

Inventories: Inventory Methods - Problem


Long-Lived Assets: Capitalizing vs Expensing: Overview
- Costs can either be capitalized as an asset on the balance sheet or immediately expensed on the balance sheet or immediately expenses in the income statement
- Capitalizing involves depreseiating or amortizing the asset’s cost over its useful life
- Expensing results in an immediate reduction of net income
- General rule
- Capitalize if there is a future economic benefit
- Immediately expense if the future benefit is unikely or highly uncertain
- Capitalized cost includes expenitures necessary to prepare the asset for use (e.g. freight, installation, taxes)
- Subsequent related expenditures that provide more benefits are capitalized (e.g., replacing the roof on a building)
- Costs that merely sustain the asset’s usefulness are immediately expensed (e.g., repair and maintenance)
Long-Lived Assets: Capitalizing vs. Expensing: Financial Statement Effects

Long-Lived Assets: Capitalizing Interest Costs
- Interest incurred during the construction is capitalized (“held-for-use” assets and discrete projects)
- Objective is to accurately measure the asset’s cost and better match cost with revenues
- The interest rate is based (in order) on:
- Project-specific debt
- Unrelated debt
- Interest expense on debt in excess of construction cost is immediately expense
- Capitalized interest is reduced by income earned from temporarily investing the debt proceeds (IFRS only)
- Once construction is complete, capitalized interest is depreciated in the income statement
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Capitalizing interest costs results in higher interest coverage ration (lower denominator)
- Many analysts add capitalized interest to interest expense before interest coverage
- The result is a reduction in interest converage (higher denominator)
Long-Lived Assets: Capitalization of Interest - Example


Long-Lived Assets: Capitalizing Expenses - Problem


Long-Lived Assets: Intangible Assets: Externally developed
- Intangible assets lack physical substance
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Indentifiable intangibles
- Can be separated from, and controlled by, the firm
- Expected to provide future benefits that are probable and whose cost can be reliably measured
- Unidentifiable intangibles cannot be separated from the firm (e.g. goodwill)
- Finite-lived intangibles are amortized over their useful lives
- Indefinite-lived intangibles are not amortized but tested for impairment














































































