LIFO LINKS

Bureau of Labor Statistics:

 

A. Selected categories for all periods:

PPI Table 6 - Current Categories

PPI Table 6 - Discontinued Categories

CPI - Categories

 

PPI indexes displayed are Preliminary for most recent 4 months and Final for all other periods.

 

 

B. Single month for all categories :

Archived PPI Detail Reports (PDF files starting June 2005)

Archived CPI Detail Reports (PDF files starting October 2000)

 

PPI indexes in these reports are preliminary for the month of the report.

 

See our PPI Category Maintenance web page for a description of both preliminary and final PPI Table 6 indexes.

 

 

C. Index Release Dates :

PPI Release Dates

CPI Release Dates

 

D. Other Links:

Internal Revenue Service

 

E. Published Books:

LIFO Inventory:  Tax and Accounting Issues - John Purtill

 

The Income Taxation of Inventories under the Last-in, First-out method -

John Davenport and W. Eugene Seago

 

Inventory Tax Accounting and Uniform Capitalization - W. Eugene Seago

 

F. Auto Dealer LIFO:

LIFO-PRO, Inc. provides consulting and calculation services for, and our software can be used by companies in all industries except auto dealers.

 

Links to auto dealer service provider web sites:

 

Willard J. De Filipps, CPA, specializes in working with auto dealer LIFO and sells software for auto dealer LIFO calculations.

 

http://www.defilipps.com/

 

Green Financial Outsourcing Solutions gives accounting professionals who serve the auto dealer industry a cost effective way to outsource the data capture process necessary for year-end tax preparations.

 

With a powerful suite of financial products, Green makes automotive data capture headaches a thing of the past.

 

http://www.greenoutsourcing.com/