2.3.3. Capital Structure
[19] finds that the capital structure affects the inventory accounting choice as well. Since then, [8] [15] [18] have
stated that companies which heavily rely on external financing try to avoid the income decreasing inventory accounting
method which will lead to a more restrictive covenants on contracts levied by financial institutions.
Different papers try to analyze the relationship between the components of the capital structure and the inventory
accounting choice to provide more practical insights for the capital and inventory accounting policy. [19] selects
two groups of companies according to two different costing methods—full costing method and successful
efforts to test the significance of long-term debt.