Accounting Procedures Allow a Business to Evaluate Its Inventory Costs

question 18

Multiple Choice

Accounting procedures allow a business to evaluate its inventory costs based on two methods: LIFO (last in first out) or FIFO (first in first out) . A manufacturer evaluated its finished goods inventory (in $000s) for five products with the LIFO and FIFO methods. To analyze the difference,they computed FIFO − LIFO for each product. Based on the following results,does the LIFO method result in a lower cost of inventory than the FIFO method? What is the decision at the 5% level of significance?

• A)Fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude LIFO is more effective.
• B)Reject the null hypothesis and conclude LIFO is more effective.
• C)Reject the alternate hypothesis and conclude LIFO is more effective.
• D)Fail to reject the null hypothesis.

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Definitions:

Pinocytosis

Cell drinking; a type of endocytosis by which cells engulf and absorb droplets of liquids. Compare with phagocytosis and receptor-mediated endocytosis.

Net Water Movement

The overall transfer of water from one location to another, often across a membrane, driven by osmosis, filtration, or other forces.

Hypotonic

A term referring to a solution having an osmotic pressure (or solute concentration) less than that of the solution with which it is compared. Compare with hypertonic and isotonic.

Hypertonic

A solution that has a higher concentration of solutes compared to the solute concentration inside the cell, leading to the movement of water out of the cell.