COST PRINCIPLE
The cost principle (or historical cost principle) dictates that companies record
assets at their cost. This is true not only at the time the asset is purchased, but
also over the time the asset is held. For example, if Best Buy purchases land for
$300,000, the company initially reports it in its accounting records at $300,000.
But what does Best Buy do if, by the end of the next year, the fair value of the
land has increased to $400,000? Under the cost principle, it continues to report
the land at $300,000.
COST PRINCIPLE
The cost principle (or historical cost principle) dictates that companies record
assets at their cost. This is true not only at the time the asset is purchased, but
also over the time the asset is held. For example, if Best Buy purchases land for
$300,000, the company initially reports it in its accounting records at $300,000.
But what does Best Buy do if, by the end of the next year, the fair value of the
land has increased to $400,000? Under the cost principle, it continues to report
the land at $300,000.
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