Constraint 3: Consistency
For each company, the preparation of financial statements must utilize measurement techniques and assumptions that are consistent from one period to another.
As we will learn in Chapter 6, companies can choose among several different accounting methods to measure the monetary value of their inventories. What matters is that a company consistently applies the same inventory method across different fiscal years.
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