Valuing Inventories
The basic principle of inventory valuation is that the value of a unit of inventory is its cost. For example, if your company purchases products at a wholesale cost and resells them to consumers at a retail price, then the value of your inventory of goods is determined by the amount you pay to acquire them. The inventory itself consists of whatever you have purchased for the purpose of resale, in your normal business operations. So inventory would not include the building that you purchased for office space: although you might resell it, you wouldn't expect to do so as part of normal business operations.
On the other hand, if your company manufactures or otherwise produces goods, the situation is more complicated. In that ...
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