To determine the value of ending inventory and, ultimately, margins, many retailers have stuck with an accounting practice known as the retail inventory method — in some cases for more than 100 years ...
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Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...