#manufacturing
Manufacturing cost accounting, production, and operations
IRS Notice 2026-11 locks in permanent 100% bonus depreciation for property acquired after Jan 19, 2025, with bigger Section 179 and expensable factories.
Target cost equals market price minus required profit — set the price first, then engineer costs down to fit before you launch.
Lamb Weston's Q1 FY2027 net sales rose 1% to $1.67B while net income fell 55% to $29.1M. Plant-closure and legal charges put $51M into cost of sales.
If 50%+ of your metered electricity or gas runs production equipment, Texas, Indiana and other states exempt the whole utility bill — plus 3–4 years of refunds.
Deere's Q3 FY2026: $1.379B net income on $12.6B revenue, large ag sales down 6%, construction margin up to 12.1%, and a $49.2B finance receivables book.
Acuity's FY2026 GAAP EPS rose 36.1% to $17.05 while adjusted EPS rose only 10.5%; tariff refunds and a 2025 pension charge explain the gap.
Small food businesses with under $500,000 in sales can skip the Nutrition Facts panel, but identity, ingredients, allergens, and net weight stay mandatory.
IMMEX lets US firms import materials into Mexico duty-free — if you meet the export floor, run Annex 24 inventory control, and clear USMCA origin rules.
THOR Industries' FY2026 sales were flat at $9.61B, but net income fell 31% to $177.5M as gross margin slid from 14.0% to 12.6%. See the open ledger.
Armenia taxes small traders 10% of gross turnover and manufacturers 7%, and since September 2026 every invoice must precede the goods — the compliance playbook.
Hawaii's Act 182 opens 7-year enterprise zone tax breaks — full GET exemption plus an 80% income tax credit — to retail, health care, and IT firms in-zone.
Jabil's FY2026 revenue rose 21% to $36.0B, yet GAAP net income was $1.04B — a 2.9% margin. Trace the AI-server economics and $13.09 core EPS in a public ledger.
