Accounting Information Systems
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ISBN: 9781337552127
Author: Ulric J. Gelinas, Richard B. Dull, Patrick Wheeler, Mary Callahan Hill
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 15, Problem 10DQ
A main goal of JIT is zero inventories.
- a. Assume your company does not aspire to JIT and has $3,000,000 in raw materials in stock. Identify costs that may be incurred to maintain the inventory level.
- b. Now assume that you implement JIT, and your raw materials in stock drop to zero. Explain how you expect this change to impact your income statement and
balance sheet .
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Assume that the ending inventory of a merchandising firm is overstated by $40,000.
a. By how much and in what direction (overstated or understated) will the firms cost of goods be misstated?
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c. If this error is not corrected, what effect will it have on the total operating income of the two periods (the period in which there is an error and the subsequent period) combined?
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expense. Assuming that the cost the company pays for inventory is increasing, which method will:
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(b)
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When a company's days of inventory on hand are increasing, this might indicate that:
O The company is overstating inventory to reduce profits.
O The company is expanding.
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