Hey JRosen! It's actually both–Assignment is taking out a loan with the collateral being the receivables so you would get cash from that. Can you take a look at mine and NJPRU's answer to your earlier question on Dollar Value Lifo and let me know if we were right?
You actually have to take it back to the Year 2 price index because year 3 gives you a liquidation so you use 16,000 (20,000 from year 2 – 4,000 liquidation in year 3) * the year 2 index. I had to look in the book when I did it. I need to figure out how to commit this to memory.
So far I have studied the following: Standard setting, Income Statement, Reporting Requirements, Matching, Marketable Securities and Business Combinations, Working, Capital, and Fixed Assets.
I'm not too great at Business Combos and I could use a refresher on marketable securities if you want to hit me up with those areas and I'll get you with the other ones?