Accounting 26th Edition by Carl Warren ,Jim Reeve ,Jonathan Duchac

Exercise 13

Under U.S. GAAP, LIFO is an acceptable inventory method. Financial statement information for three companies that use LIFO follows. All table numbers are in millions of dollars.

Assume that these companies adopted IFRS and thus were required to use FIFO rather than LIFO.
a. Prepare a table with the following columns:

(1) Difference between FIFO and LIFO inventory valuation
(2) Revised IFRS net income using FIFO
(3) Difference between FIFO and LIFO inventory valuation as a percent of total current assets (rounded to the nearest whole percent)
(4) Revised IFRS net income as a percent of the reported net income (rounded to the nearest whole percent)
b. Complete the table for the three companies.
c. For which company would a change to IFRS for inventory valuation have the largest percentage impact on total current assets (Col. 3)
d. For which company would a change to IFRS for inventory valuation have the largest percentage impact on net income (Col. 4)
e. Why might Kroger have a negative impact on net income from using LIFO, while the other two companies have a positive impact on net income from using LIFO