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Inflation accounting, also called price level accounting, is similar to converting financial statements into another currency using an exchange rate. Under some (not all) inflation accounting models, historical costs are converted to price-level adjusted costs using general or specific price indexes.
Corporate price increases are a substantial driver of inflation—accounting for more than half of the consumer inflation in the past year, according to multiple studies.
Constant purchasing power accounting (CPPA) is an accounting model that is an alternative to model historical cost accounting under high inflation and hyper-inflationary environments. [1] It has been approved for use by the International Accounting Standards Board ( IASB ) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board ( FASB ).
A real-world example can make this reality crystal clear. Using the same metrics, the median household income in the U.S. in 1972, or 50 years ago, was just $11,120.
Under the historical cost basis of accounting, assets and liabilities are recorded at their values when first acquired. They are not then generally restated for changes in values. Costs recorded in the Income Statement are based on the historical cost of items sold or used, rather than their replacement costs. For example,
The national consumer price index rose 6.2 percent from October 2020 to October 2021. That's the largest 12-month increase since 1990, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
– Examples where inflation has eased, ranked by the size of the change: Passenger travel by air: August up 11.9%, September down 5.0% Olive oil: Aug up 40.8%, Sep up 33.0%
The most commonly used indices are the CPI-U and the CPI-W, though many alternative versions exist for different uses. For example, the CPI-U is the most popularly cited measure of consumer inflation in the United States, while the CPI-W is used to index Social Security benefit payments.