A major shortage/overage is anything ____ or above.

• A. $25
• B. $10
• C. $50
• D. $5

Answer: (A)

In Raising Cane’s inventory and cash procedures, a major shortage/overage is any discrepancy that is twenty-five dollars or more. This threshold focuses attention on significant variances that could indicate theft, miscounting, or process errors, while smaller differences are common from rounding or timing issues and are handled without formal investigation. So the correct fill is twenty-five dollars because it sets the cutoff for what counts as a major discrepancy. A discrepancy of fifty dollars would still be considered major, but the threshold used to define “major” is twenty-five. Discrepancies of ten or five dollars are below the threshold and considered minor.