Question

Mr. David decision to increase inventory holdings resulted from the consistent pressure of Golden Cup’s Board of Directors to increase amount of inventories. Mr. David’s own opinion was that Golden cup is holding enough inventory to keep the business running without costing the company lots of money on inventory carrying costs. On the other hand, BOD believes that in such a dynamic industry, holding more inventory is necessary to keep smooth business operations.

Required:

a. How long does it currently take the company to turnover its inventory?

b. Do you agree with Mr. David’s opinion? Or, With the BOD? And why? Knowing that industry average inventory turnover is 8.

Answer 1

the information is missing, so I looked for a similar question and found the attached image:

a) days inventory on hand = (average inventory / cost of goods sold) x 365 = ($14,000 / $120,000) x 365 = 42.58 days

b) inventory turnover ratio = cost of goods sold / average inventory = $120,000 / $14,000 = 8.57

I agree with Mr. David because the inventory turnover ratio of Golden Cup is already higher than the industry's average. That means that Golden Cup's current inventory level is appropriate and increasing it would only result in higher costs but would have very little influence on the company's sales.