A manufacturing company producing medical devices reported $60 000 000 in sales over the last year. At the end of the same year the company had $ 20 000 000 worth of inventory of ready-to-ship devices. a) Assuming that units in inventory are valued (based on COGS) at $1000 per unit and are sold for $2000 per unit, how fast does the company turn its inventory? The company uses a 25% per year cost of inventory. That is for the hypothetical case that one unit of $1000 would sit exactly one year in inventory, the company charges its operations division a $250 inventory cost. b) What in absolute terms is the per unit inventory cost for a product that costs $1000?

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A manufacturing company producing medical devices reported $60 000 000 in sales over the last year. At the end of the same year the company had $ 20 000 000 worth of inventory of ready-to-ship devices.
a) Assuming that units in inventory are valued (based on COGS) at $1000 per unit and are sold for $2000 per unit, how fast does the company turn its inventory? The company uses a 25% per year cost of inventory. That is for the hypothetical case that one unit of $1000 would sit exactly one year in inventory, the company charges its operations division a $250 inventory cost.
b) What in absolute terms is the per unit inventory cost for a product that costs $1000?

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