Fin622 Assignment No. 2 solution
Saturday, June 11, 2011 Posted In Fin Edit This“Corporate Finance (FIN622) ”
Assignment No. 02
Marks: 15
Question:
SNT Company has been dealing in the business of books for five years. The company faces steady demand for the books. So, it replenishes the supply by placing an order for more books from the publisher whenever there is inventory shortage. The company is planning to buy 200,000 books over the coming year. Each order that it places costs Rs. 75 and the annual carrying cost of the inventory is Rs. 0.10 per book. The company can place either a single order or multiple orders as provided in the following table. Average inventory over the year would be half of the order size and therefore carrying costs would be calculated accordingly.
(a) Fill in the table by keeping above information into consideration. (10)
Order Size
Orders per year
Average Inventory
Ordering Costs
Carrying Costs
Total Costs
200,000
100,000
50,000
20,000
10,000
(b) Which order should be placed by SNT Company according to the table and why? (2)
(c) Calculate Economic Order Quantity. Is your answer consistent with your findings in part (b)?
Schedule
Opening Date and Time
June 09, 2011 At 12:00 A.M. (Mid-Night)
Due Date and Time
June 14, 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)
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