Accounting Changes and Error Corrections

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Why is LIFO adoption a special case under ASC 250?

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Its effects are often impracticable to reconstruct, so it is prospective.

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What must management show for a voluntary change in principle?

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That the new principle is preferable.

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When is a change from FIFO to weighted average accounted for retrospectively?

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When the new GAAP principle is preferable and justified.

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Why is a reporting entity change from a normal business combination not an accounting change?

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It is just the transaction's ordinary effect.

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