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COST MARKET WHICHEVER IS LOWER [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Auditing (Accounting)
  • Government Accounting
DEF

A method of valuing items of inventory or marketable securities, under which losses inherent in declines of market prices below cost are recognized in the period in which such declines occur.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
  • Comptabilité publique
DEF

Méthode qui consiste, dans l'application du principe de prudence, à évaluer certains biens (par exemple les stocks et les titres de placements) à leur coût historique ou à leur valeur marchande, selon le moins élevé des deux.

Spanish

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