A large catalog retailer of fashion apparel reported $232,680,000 in revenues over the last year. On average, over the same year, the company had $5,540,000 worth of inventory in their warehouses. Assume that units in inventory are valued based on cost of goods sold (COGS) and that the retailer has a 100 percent markup on all products.

a. How many times each year does the retailer turn its inventory?

(Round the answer to 1 decimal place.)

Turns: _______

b. The company uses a 33.6 percent per year cost of inventory. That is, for the hypothetical case that one item of $100 COGS would sit exactly one year in inventory, the company charges itself a $33.6 inventory cost. What is the inventory cost for a $30 (COGS) item? You may assume that inventory turns are independent of the price.

(Round the answer to 2 decimal places.)

Inventory cost: ________ per unit