Cost Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133428702
ISBN 13: 978-0-13342-870-4

Chapter 9 - Inventory Costing and Capacity Analysis - Assignment Material - Questions - Page 358: 9-14

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For tax reporting in the United States, the IRS simply requires that indirect production costs are distributed fairly among all the items a company produces. This means companies can use various capacity concepts to calculate these costs. Additionally, at the end of the year, any differences between inventory and cost of goods sold need to be adjusted, unless they are very small.

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