Koss Corp. makes high-quality head-phones for a variety of applications. Koss is a Milwaukee-based company but has
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a. Why does globalization of a firm’s production operations increase the challenges in controlling inventories using the JIT philosophy (pull system)?
b. After scrapping JIT, Koss reported that the total investment in inventories dropped from $ 15 million to $ 8 million. How could this occur?
c. From the perspective of managing the risk of a stock outage, is Koss better off holding mostly finished goods inventory, or mostly component parts inventories? Explain.
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Cost Accounting Foundations and Evolutions
ISBN: 978-1111971724
9th edition
Authors: Michael R. Kinney, Cecily A. Raiborn
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