International Accounting Case XYZ Corporation is a Swiss-based company that prepares its consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS.

International Accounting Case

XYZ Corporation is a Swiss-based company that prepares its consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS. The company reported income in 2018 of $1,000,000 and stockholders' equity at December 31, 2018, of $7,000,000.

           The CFO of XYZ has learned that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is accepting financial statements of non-US firms using either US GAAP or IFRS in preparing consolidated financial statements. The CFO is curious  to determine the impact that switch from IFRS to U.S. GAAP would have on its financial statements and has engaged you to create a reconciliation of income and stockholders' equity from IFRS to U.S. GAAP. You have identified the following five areas in which XYZ's accounting principles based on IFRS differ from U.S. GAAP.

1.     Inventory

2.     Property, plant, and equipment

3.     Intangible assets

4.     Research and development costs

5.     Sale-and-leaseback transaction

XYZ provides the following information with respect to each of these accounting differences.

Inventory

At year-end 2018, inventory had a historical cost of $613,000, Information, such as replacement cost, selling value, sales commission, and profit margin for each individual product is provided below (XYZ company is conservative and calculating based on item-by-item of inventory):

Product

Television