Fifth edition Alnoor Bhimani Charles T. Horngren Srikant M. Datar Madhav V. Rajan Farah Ahamed


Correcting students misconceptions



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Correcting students misconceptions
Carrying costs are higher than what students expect. Many companies believe that annual carrying costs exceed 30% of the stock purchase cost.
Teaching tips
Students with a quantitative background will be interested in the derivative of the EOQ model.
EOQ determines the order quantity (Q) that minimises the total purchase order and carrying costs
2
DP QC
DP
Q
+
Using differential calculus to obtain a minimum of the
TC function with respect to Q, d 0
d
2
DP C
TC
Q
Q

=
2 2
C
DP
Q
2
DP
Q
C
=
(Note also that the second derivative is positive)

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