Abstract
A business or investor has to make a good cost analysis in order to see the profit-loss situation and to know the tax it will pay in advance. While calculating the cost, any of the stock valuation methods allowed by the national accounting standards can be used.
In this study, a different model will be developed and explained with a new name and perspective, instead of the LOFO (Low In First Out) model, which is one of the current stock valuation methods, but is not widely accepted, even generally discussed, and is almost never included in many academic sources. The new name being considered will be CIFO (Cheapest In First Out).
The new name being considered will be CIFO (Cheapest In First Out). It will be explained why the concept of the lowest in the lowest-in-first-out method does not satisfy (not fully explained, details are not given) and why this method should be developed and revealed with a new name.
This method, which has been reworked in order to contribute to the literature, is based on the assumption that the goods to be produced or sold should be among the goods that enter the stocks at the cheapest price. With this revised model, which has been used before or ignored by other methods known in the literature, all kinds of stocks and similar assets with high price volatility (volatility) are evaluated, and thanks to a healthy income-expense calculation, a clearer profit / loss and tax payable situation can be revealed. Discussed from a pro-state perspective. It is thought that the CIFO method will yield results in favor of the tax revenues of the states.