Definition the method of accounting which records a company's costs and revenues after taking into account changes in prices affecting those items and the value of assets at current replacement cost; in arriving at profit, the charge against income for stocks consumed and fixed assets used is based on current replacement costs and not on out-of-date and irrelevant historical costs; similary, the Balance Sheet shows up-to-date values in place of historical values Reference Dict.of Accounting,Collin-Joliffe,1992 ;T/921/76,7