Keegan Company Manufactures a Single Product and Has a JIT

question 147

Multiple Choice

Keegan Company manufactures a single product and has a JIT policy that ending inventory must equal 10% of the next month's sales. It estimates that May's ending inventory will consist of 20,000 units. June and July sales are estimated to be 280,000 and 290,000 units, respectively. Compute the number of units to be produced that would appear on the company's production budget for the month of June.

• A) 288,000.
• B) 260,000.
• C) 289,000.
• D) 280,000.
• E) 309,000.

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Asset Account

An account on a balance sheet representing resources owned by a company with future economic value.

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The process of settling invoices or bills owed to suppliers or creditors, typically involving the outflow of cash from an entity's bank account.