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Hardware / manufacturing

Physical goods with a bill of materials, inventory, and long supply lead times.

What changes about the finance work: Working capital intensive; cost-down curves matter more than pricing

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  • Inventory accounting and reservesTaskunverified

    Long supply lead times force purchase commitments against a forecast that will be wrong, so excess and obsolescence reserving — not standard costing — is where the judgement and the audit risk concentrate. The reserve is effectively a restatement of the demand forecast.