Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power in terms of the Daily CPI: An inconvenient accounting truth

Sunday, 31 July 2016

An inconvenient accounting truth

No balance sheet has ever balanced in real value under Historical Cost Accounting and no balance sheet ever will while money, subject to inflation and deflation, is used as the unstable unit of measure.

Under IFRS and US GAAP authorised Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power in terms of the Daily CPI the constant purchasing power of capital is automatically maintained constant in real value in all entities at all levels of inflation, hyperinflation and deflation - ceteris paribus.

Nicolaas Smith Copyright (c) 2005-2016 Nicolaas J Smith. All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission.

2 comments:

Hosne13 August 2016 at 21:28
This article on Difference Between Financial And Physical Capital Maintenance is also helpful. Thanks for this.
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Nicolaas Smith13 August 2016 at 21:34
You are welcome.
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Daily CPI

1. Argentina Daily CPI - CER (Coeficiente de Estabilización de Referencia)

Click in sequence: "Estadísticas e Indicadores"

"Monetarias y Financieras"
"Descarga de paquetes estandarizados de series estadísticas":

At the bottom of the page you will see: "Coeficiente de estabilización de referencia (CER), serie diaria", then choose a year and open the excel file.

2. Chile - UF: Daily Unidad de Fomento Index. Not a Daily CPI, but a monetized daily indexed unit of account.

3. Colombia - Real Value Unit A Monetized Daily Indexed Unit of Account

4. Denmark Inflation-Linked Bonds

5. Eurozone Daily CPI Click on "Download historical data"

6. France Daily CPI Click on "Download historical data"

7. Germany Daily Reference Index

8. Iceland - Daily CPI

8. Iceland- CPIs - including Daily CPI

9. Ireland Inflation-Linked Bonds

10. Italy Inflation-Linked Bonds

11. Japan - Daily CPI

12. Mexico - Unidad de Inversion Click on UDI and then select Export to HTML