Question

A company can choose to use FIFO inventory costing methods for the financial statement and can elect to use either LIFO or FIFO on the tax return, however if you use LIFO for books then you must use LIFO on the tax return
A. True.
B. False.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. True.

Explanation:

Companies can and often do use different costing methods for financial reporting and tax reporting. The only exception is when LIFO is used for tax reporting; in this case the IRS requires that it also be used in financial statements.

LIFO assigns the highest amount to cost of goods sold - yielding the lowest gross profits and net income , which also yields a temporary tax advantage by postponing payment of some income tax.