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Abstract
The significance of a variation in the amount of material lost between inventory checks has been analyzed by optimal linear combinations of the accounting data. The purpose is to increase the sensitivity for detecting diversion. No linear combination tested provided greater sensitivity than the simple traditional material unaccounted for “Starting Inventory Plus Throughput Minus Ending Inventory.”