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March 18, 2026The Accounting Review

Inventory Valuation and the Short-Run Cost Function.

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JFJ. E. Field

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Overview

This analysis demonstrates the relationship between cost and sales using marginal inventory valuation.

Key Points

  • The research aims to explore how inventory changes impact cost through marginal cost valuation.
  • Utilized an accounting equation incorporating marginal cost.
  • Included purchases and production as independent variables in regression calculations.
  • Estimated coefficients of physical relationships among sales, purchases, and production.
  • Identified that errors in inventory estimates are more significant in shorter periods.
  • Converted the cost equation to depend on sales and other independent variables.
  • Showed potential to reduce estimation requirements by direct coefficient calculations.

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J. E. Field (1960) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ba429c4e9516ffd37a30b3https://doi.org/10.2308/tar-7061225
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  4. 4PRICE LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS AND INVENTORY FLOW ASSUMPTIONS.1965
  5. 5INVENTORY VALUATION--THE ACCOUNTANTS ACHILLES HEEL.1954