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Accounting for Inventory/Materials- Cost of Placing an Order Exam Question

KKirit10y ago
Good afternoon John, I'm stuck on this Exam Kit question and really need your help please. Purchase price of an inventory item is $42 per unit In each 3 month period the usage of the item is 2000 units AHC associated with 1 unit is 5% of the purchase price EOQ is 185 units What is the cost of placing an order to 2 decimal points So I started off as follows: AOC=D/Q x Co EOQ= 2x CoD /Ch and then square root D=2000 x 4=8000 units Q=185 units Ch= 0.05 x $42 = $2.1 Im now very stuck and confused. I know that I need to re-arrange the above information but I don't know how to. Can you please help me. Thanks
KKirit10y ago#1
I'm very grateful to you for your help so far with the other questions that I have requested help with. I would be really grateful if you could kindly assist me with the above question that I have unfortunately become stuck with. Thank you
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor10y ago#2
Since the EOQ is 185 units, using the formula gives: 185 = sq root of ((2 x 8,000 x Co) / 2.1) If you square both sides, then: 34,225 = (16.000 x Co) / 2.1 So: Co = 34,225 x 2.1 / 16,000 = $44.92
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