You won’t sell your table, unless you are a table-salesman

  • Everything you own which will at some point be sold
    • raw materials
    • intermediate products
    • final products ready for sale
  • there must a value on the Balance Sheet
    • net realizable value how much you can profit off of all the contents of the inventory
      • all resources in inventory were processed into products and sold
        • costs of raw materials and production (direct attributable costs)
    • lower of cost (150) and net realizable value (100) result 100
  • carrying amount = book value
  • write-down: when a product in inventory looses it’s value
    • the inventory lost 95% of its estimated value
      • BS: inventory -95, equity -95
      • PL: -95
      • CF: 0 all Non-Cash Transactions (depreciation, etc) is not reflected in cash flow

IAS 2

  • a standard on how to calculate the current inventory on the 31.12 of a given year for accounting purposes