In a increasing price environment, inventory values reported under LIFO are lower than the values reported under FIFO, and the values that result from weighted average cost are between the LIFO and FIFO values. Thus, the value of inventory using weighted average cost is higher than inventory using LIFO. The value of inventory using specific identification depends on which particular items from inventory are sold, and thus can be higher or lower than the inventory values that result from the other methods. |
