...Chapter 13 Auditing the Inventory Management Process Answer Key True / False Questions 1. The "cradle-to-grave" cycle for inventory begins when goods are purchased and stored and ends when the finished goods are shipped to customers. TRUE AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Decision Making Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 13-01 Develop an understanding of the inventory management process. Topic: Overview of Inventory Management Process 2. A receiving report records the shipment of goods to customers. FALSE AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Decision Making Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 13-02 Be able to identify and describe the types of documents and records used in the inventory management process. Topic: Types of Documents and Records 3. Sale of finished goods is a part of the inventory management process. FALSE AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Decision Making Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 13-03 Understand the functions in the inventory management process. Topic: The Major Functions 4. Once the controls in the inventory system have been tested, the auditor sets the level of control risk. TRUE AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Risk Analysis Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 13-06 Know how to assess control risk for the inventory system. Topic: Control Risk...
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...Operations Management, 10e (Heizer/Render) Chapter 12 Inventory Management 1) According to the global company profile, Amazon.com's advantage in inventory management comes from its almost fanatical use of economic order quantity and safety stock calculations. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 Topic: Global company profile Objective: no LO 2) A major challenge in inventory management is to maintain a balance between inventory investment and customer service. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Topic: The importance of inventory Objective: no LO 3) Which item to order and with which supplier the order should be placed are the two fundamental issues in inventory management. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Topic: The importance of inventory Objective: no LO 4) One function of inventory is to take advantage of quantity discounts. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Topic: Functions of inventory Objective: no LO 5) Work-in-process inventory is devoted to maintenance, repair, and operations. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 Topic: Functions of inventory Objective: no LO 6) ABC analysis classifies inventoried items into three groups, usually based on annual units or quantities used. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 Topic: Managing inventory Objective: LO12-1 7) In ABC analysis, "A" Items are the most tightly controlled. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Topic: Managing inventory Objective: LO12-1 1 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc 8) ABC analysis is based on the presumption that carefully controlling all items is necessary to produce...
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...Materials Management / 1 CHAPTER I Materials Management Introduction Materials Management is simply the process by which an organization is supplied with the goods and services that it needs to achieve its objectives of buying, storage and movement of materials. Materials Management is related to planning, procuring, storing and providing the appropriate material of right quality, right quantity at right place in right time so as to co-ordinate and schedule the production activity in an integrative way for an industrial undertaking. Most industries buy materials, transport them in to the plant, change the materials in to parts, assemble parts in to finished products, sell and transport the product to the customer. All these activities of purchase of materials, flow of materials, manufacture them in to the product, supply and sell the product at the market requires various types of materials to manage and control their storage, flow and supply at various places. It is only possible by efficient materials management. The materials requirements planning, purchasing, inventory planning, storage, inventory control, materials supply, transportation and materials handling are the activities of materials management. They will be discussed in details in various chapters to follow. About 20-25 years ago, there was no cut-throat competition in the market to sell the various consumer items manufactured by different industrial undertakings and the availability of materials to manufacture...
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...com/quotes/quotes/m/michaelpor381643.html) In the long term, the major objective for operations and processes is to provide the business with some form of strategic advantage. This is why the management of business’s processes and operations and its intended overall strategy must be logically connected. Operations strategy can be defined as a pattern of decisions and actions that shapes the long- term vision, objectives and capabilities of the operation and its contribution to overall strategy. But strategies are not always easy to identify. This is because of their intangible nature and the length of time taken for them to be realized. Nevertheless operations strategies can be identified by what they should do. First it should provide a vision for the operation’s resources to contribute to the business as a whole. Secondly it should define the exact means of the operation’s performance objectives. Third it should identify the broad decisions that will help the operations achieve its objectives. The operations strategy must connect from top (Corporate level) and the bottom (experience learnt) of the business. Strategic operations must align market requirements with operations resources. Dell is a good example of market-resource alignment. Operations strategy must set a path for improvement which clearly indicating how the improvement is to take place. This is best addressed by the trade-off between performance objectives in terms of the “efficient frontier” model. (Chapter 2, pg....
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...INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Successful inventory management involves crating a purchasing plan that will ensure that items are available when they are needed but that neither too much nor too little is purchased and keeping track of existing inventory and its use. Two common inventory management strategies are the just -in-time method, where companies plan to receive items as they are need rather than maintaining high inventory levels, and materials requirement planning, which schedules material deliveries based on sales forecasts. An inventory valuation allows a company to provide a monetary value for items that make up their inventory. Inventories are usually the largest current asset of a business, and proper measurement of them is necessary to assure accurate financial statements. If inventory is not properly measured, expenses and revenues cannot be properly matched and a company could make poor business decisions. The two most widely used inventory accounting systems are the periodic and the perpetual. * Perpetual: The perpetual inventory system requires accounting records to show the amount of inventory on hand at all times. It maintains a separate account in the subsidiary ledger for each good in stock, and the account is updated each time a quantity is added or taken out. The perpetual system records revenue each time a sale is made. Determining the cost of goods sold requires taking inventory. The most commonly used inventory valuation methods under a periodic system...
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...[pic] Course Syllabus Academic Year 2011-2012 Course Code : OPEMANA Course Name : Operations Management Course Description: This course in operations management is intended to be a survey of operating practices and models in both manufacturing and service oriented firms. Operations Management is the systematic direction and control of the processes that efficiently transform inputs into finished goods or services to suitably satisfy customers. Operation is the only function directly involved in the transformation and is directly responsible for the activities that justify the existence of the firm, both economically and as a value-creating organization in society. Understanding the role of the operations function and its impact on the competitiveness of the firm is an important part of any manager's training. Course Credit: 3.0 units Course Prerequisite: QUAMET2 Objectives: General To analyze the concepts and practices that are useful in understanding the management of a firm’s operations. . Specific The students are also expected to be able to: 1. Evaluate the roles of the Operations Manager in the over-all organizational structure. 2. Solve problems and important issues confronting operations managers in the global perspective. 3. Apply the tools that gain competitive advantage for the organization through...
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...Financial Strategy Chapter 6 Objectives and Goals * Financial – not necessarily profits, but return on investment (ROI) – primary focus. * Societal – helping to improve the world around us. * Personal – self-gratification, status, respect. Components of Strategic Profit Model Strategic Profit Model: An Overview It is a method for summarizing the factors that affect the firm’s financial performance as measured by ROA. The model decomposes of two components: 1. Net Profit Margin – is simply how much profit (after tax) a firm makes divided by its net sales. It reflects the profits generated from each sales. 2. Asset Turnover – is the retailer’s net sales divided by its assets. This assesses the productivity of a firm’s investment in its asset and indicates how many sales are generated by each dollar of sales. This two components is determined by two set of activities, profit management and asset management, and that high ROA can be achieved by various combinations of net profit margin and asset turnover Retailing View Summary: Federal Department Stores vs. Costco Federated Department Stores operates two national department store chains, Macy’s and Bloomingdales’s. Like other department store chains, Federated offers a wide variety of fashionable apparel and home furnishings, a relatively high level of customer service provided by its sales associates and an attractive shopping environment. Costco’s warehouse stores, in contrast...
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...Recommendations on Implementing Automated Inventory Management Systems at Al-Baldani Trading Contracting Establishment. (BBA-604) Synopsis submitted by: Arifa Jamil Syed BBA (General) 541110506 Table of Content Executive Summary 3 Part 1: Understanding the industry & company 4 Part 2: Introduction 6 Objective 6 Methodology 7 Conclusion 8 5. Recommendation 8 Part 3: 1. Appendix 9 (Part 1) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The goal of this project is to...
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...1.1 INTRODUCTION Inventory Management An Inventory is a Stock or Store of goods kept to meet customers expected demand. Inventory can also be defined as the stored accumulation of transformed resources in a process, and it usually applies to material resources but may also be used for inventories of information. Almost all operations keep some kind of inventory, most usually of materials but also of information and customers (Customers inventories are normally called Queues). These inventories can take various forms, which includes raw materials purchased but not processed, work- in- process (WIP) incomplete products or components nor longer considered raw materials., maintenance, repair and operating materials which are supplies necessary to keep machines running and finished goods inventory which are ready to be sold.(Anonymous, 2007) Inventories are costly, as they sometimes tie up working capital. They are also risky because items held in stock may deteriorate, become obsolete, or indeed get lost. Stocks also take up valuable space. On the other hand they provide security in uncertain environments because the operation can deliver stocks should customers demand them. Inventory management in some operations is more than just a part of their responsibility; it is the very reason for being in business (Slack et al 2007). 1.1.2 DISCUSSION The five performance objectives are Quality, Speed, Dependability, Flexibility, and Cost. Quality Many...
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...OPEN LEARNING PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE UNIT CODE: BAC 502: UNIT TITLE: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Course Lecturer: F. Abdul LESSON ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. What is Financial Management Financial management can be defined as the management of the finances of an organisation in order to achieve the financial objectives of the organization. The usual assumption in financial management for the private sector is that the objectives for the company is to maximize shareholders wealth. 1.2. Financial Planning The financial manager will need to plan to ensure that enough funding is available at the right time to meet the needs of the organisation for short, medium and long-term capital. a) b) 1.3. In the short-term, funds may be needed to pay for purchases of inventory, or to smooth out changes in receivables, payables and cash: the financial manager is here ensuring that working capital requirements are met. In the medium or long term, the organisation may have planned purchase of fixed assets such as plant and equipment, for which the financial manager must ensure that funding is available. Financial Management decisions The financial management decisions relate to investment, financing and dividends. The management of risk must also be considered. Investments in assets must be financed somehow. Financial management is also concerned with the management of short-term funds and with how funds can be raised over the long term. The retention of profits is a financing...
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...A REPORT ON INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IN DIGILINK Submitted by MONIKA AGARWAL Regd No. – 09KB045 in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of PGDM program at Krupajal Business School, Bhubneshwar UNDER THE FACULTY GUIDE : UNDER THE COMPANY GUIDE : Sushant Mishra Mr. Mourya Banerjee KBS, Bbsr Territory Head-North East Digilink. KRUPAJAL BUSINESS SCHOOL, BHUBNESWAR (2009-11) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I express my sincere gratitude to Prof.Sushant Mishra,who was initially my faculty guide, under whose supervision has helped to clarify my concepts of Inventory Management, distinguished scholars and authors, whose work I heve used in this project. I would also like to thank to Prof.Biplab Biswal No words of appreciation are good enough for the constant encouragement, which I have received from him. I thank Mr.Anshuman Haldar(Regional head-East) for his unstinted support to the project. Finally, I would like to thank Mr.Mourya Banerjee (Territory head-North East),my company guide to give the opportunity to complete the project in the esteemed organization. Preface As a part of the partial fulfillment of the PGDM programme at Krupajal Business...
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... Meaning and Definition of Inventory In dictionary meaning of inventory is a “detailed list of goods, furniture etc.” Many understand the word inventory, as a stock of goods, but the generally accepted meaning of the word ‘goods’ in the accounting language, is the stock of finished goods only. In a manufacturing organization, however, in addition to the stock of finished goods, there will be stock of partly finished goods, raw materials and stores. The collective name of these entire items is ‘inventory’. The term ‘inventory’ refers to the stockpile of production a firm is offering for sale and the components that make up the production. The inventory means aggregate of those items of tangible personal property which are held for sale in ordinary course of business, are in process of production for such sales, they are to be currently consumed in the production of goods or services to be available for sale. Inventories are expandable physical articles held for resale for use in manufacturing a production or for consumption in carrying on business activity such as merchandise, goods purchased by the business which are ready for sale. Management of Inventories Inventories consist of raw materials, stores, spares, packing materials, coal, petroleum products, works-in-progress and finished products in stock either at the factory or deposits. The maintenance of inventory means blocking of funds and so it involves the interest and opportunity...
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...INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR FOOD PROCESSING COMPANIES Program BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MARICEL M. BALANGUE ANGEL STORM E. CAINOY LARA MAY C. CELESTINO CHRISTIAN OLIVER J.GALLARDO ALSIE B.LANDICHO Proponents MR.JAYSONR.HERMOGENES Adviser 1. Project Title INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR FOOD PROCESSING COMPANIES 2. Project Overview and Problem Statement In business world, inventory is one of the most expensive assets of many companies. Good inventory management being crucial that have been recognized by operation managers around the globe. The project entitled Inventory Management for Food Processing Companies is a software application maintaining the records related to food stocks, items and products management. This can be used to track the inventory of a food processing company. In addition, since theft, errors and miscalculations can occur occasionally, the system provides solution for confirming the business inventory and for correcting stock quantity. One classic method of controlling food cost is to maintain inventory levels high enough to ensure menu items can be produced in the right quantity, but low enough to not have excess product sitting in storage. Excess inventory can result in increased waste from foods that spoil, are pilfered, or simply wasted due to overproduction or obsolescence. When inventory is high, it is harder to keep track of what products are on hand, more storage space...
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...MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MAKERERE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL FACULTY OF MARKETING AND INTERNATONAL BUSINESS IMPACT OF INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND PROFITABILITY OF A COMPANY A CASE OF KK FOODS EXPOTORS LIMITED AMANYA AMOS 12/U/15971/EVE SUPRRVISED BY ATUGONZA FAITH A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO MAKERERE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY APRIL, 2015 DECLARATION I declare that this research report is my original work compiled from my personal exposure in the stated fields and never previously submitted by anyone to any other university or institution for any award. Signature..…………………………… Date……………………………… AMANYA AMOS 12/U/15971/EVE APPROVAL This research report by Amanya Amos has been submitted for examination with my approval as her academic supervisor. Signature..………………………… Date……………………………… ATUGONZA FAITH (ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR) DEDICATION This work is dedicated to all my family members who have worked so hard to educate me. My the lord bless them ACKNOWLEGMENT To begin with, I thank the Lord Almighty for having blessed me with all that I have always needed in my life, and seeing me through up to this level that I have reached. I owe special thanks to KK Foods Exporters limited to be attached to their organization. I really have to owe special thanks to my mother Mrs.Baguma Beatrice, my sisters patience Penelope and Kobusinge...
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...STI College – Muñoz EDSA Inventory Management System of an Appliance Store A Project Presented to The Faculty of STI College – Muñoz EDSA In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science by Majadas, Ellayn S. Cabato, Jonathan Lal, Depak Franco, Chester John BT402A CARLEX ROL JALMASCO Project Adviser December, 2015 Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Company Background The company gets their stocks from different companies (who sells appliances) and paid it by terms. Their recording of products, sales, purchases, expenses and inventory are in manual form. The accountant manually computes and totals the amount of monthly sales, purchases, expenses, tax and inventory. In this kind of system, missing receipts, sales, purchases, expenses and inventory records are hard to track back. The manual inventory system will be replaced and organized by developing an “Inventory Management System”. Inventory Executive System is a complete inexpensive system for management of sales, purchases and payments. This system will help you in creation invoices, sale orders, purchase orders, receiving lists, payment receipts, product labels and any kinds of the reports for monitoring your business. 2.1. Statement of the problem 2.2.1. General Problem The company are currently using manual system in getting inventory. These kinds of system have lots of problems like: * Less efficient...
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