This article reviews the tax recognition issue associated a firm’s abandonment of, or federal tax disqualification from, using the “last-in, first-out” method of inventory accounting in light of the recent Securities and Exchange Commission movement towards requiring American publicly...

We investigate the timeliness of fair value updates. We use a sample of firms required to disclose quarterly fair values for individual investments that use unobservable inputs and find evidence consistent with delayed updating and, on average, asymmetric incorporation of upward revaluations...