After Applying the Lower-Of-Cost-Or-Market Method,the Accountant Prepares a Year-End Adjustment

question 39

Multiple Choice

After applying the lower-of-cost-or-market method,the accountant prepares a year-end adjustment.That adjustment would:

• A)Decrease the company's cost of goods sold.
• B)Reduce the company's stockholders' equity.
• C)Increase the company's inventory.
• D)Increase the company's total assets.

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Definitions:

Reduced Cost

In linear programming, the amount by which the objective function coefficient of a variable must decrease before that variable's value increases in the optimal solution.

Bounded Variable

A variable that has upper and lower limits.

Shadow Price

A monetary value assigned to currently unpriced goods or services, reflecting their worth in terms of opportunity cost or their valuation in a constrained optimization problem.

Reduced Cost

In optimization, it's the difference between the cost of a non-basic variable and its contribution to the objective function, used in linear programming.