2.2. Political Cost
Political cost arises when the companies try to use LIFO to defer tax which is prohibited by the government
which uses various methods such as anti-trust policy, nationalization as well as other regulatory methods to deter
the intention of tax deferral ([9] [10]). Normally the firm’s size is used as the proxy to represent the political cost
in the statistical significance analysis. It was found, that the larger the firm is, the more likely LIFO would be
used. In order to reduce the negative influence as the main monopoly of certain industry or excessive large profits,
companies used various methods to hide the monopolistic behavior ([8] [10]). The majority of researchers
show that LIFO-firms are larger than the FIFO-firms (Eller, 1989; [7]-[10]). However, [11] in their LIFO survey
rejects the so called size hypothesis and allege that the second data is not reliable to be used to demonstrated the
significant relationship between company size and the inventory accounting choice.
2.2. Political Cost
Political cost arises when the companies try to use LIFO to defer tax which is prohibited by the government
which uses various methods such as anti-trust policy, nationalization as well as other regulatory methods to deter
the intention of tax deferral ([9] [10]). Normally the firm’s size is used as the proxy to represent the political cost
in the statistical significance analysis. It was found, that the larger the firm is, the more likely LIFO would be
used. In order to reduce the negative influence as the main monopoly of certain industry or excessive large profits,
companies used various methods to hide the monopolistic behavior ([8] [10]). The majority of researchers
show that LIFO-firms are larger than the FIFO-firms (Eller, 1989; [7]-[10]). However, [11] in their LIFO survey
rejects the so called size hypothesis and allege that the second data is not reliable to be used to demonstrated the
significant relationship between company size and the inventory accounting choice.
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