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Accounting for materials question

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  • October 5, 2018 at 10:25 pm #476579
    shyvenx
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    A manufacturing company uses 25000 components of an even rate during a year. Each order placed with the supplier of the components is for 2000 components, which is the economic order quantity. The company holds a buffer inventory of 500 components. The annual cost of holding one component in inventory is $2.

    What is the total amount of holding inventory of the component ?
    A. $2000
    B. $2500
    C. $3000
    D. $4000

    How is the answer “$3000”, sir can you explain me, please? I’ve got $2500

    October 6, 2018 at 11:52 am #476610
    John Moffat
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    The average inventory is 2,000/2 = 1,000 plus that buffer/safety inventory of 500. So a total of 1,500 units.

    Therefore the total holding cost is 1,500 x $2 = $3,000 per year.

    October 6, 2018 at 8:57 pm #476650
    shyvenx
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    Okay, thanks !

    October 7, 2018 at 9:33 am #476689
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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