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Moving inventory out of your warehouse and into your customers' hands is a major objective of running a profitable business. The faster your inventory sells, the quicker you recoup your purchase costs ...

Inventory turnover is an indicator of a company’s revenue efficiency. It is the ratio defining how many times the inventory was sold and replaced in a given period of time. The inventory turnover ...

A company's inventory can consist of the raw materials needed to create finished products, the actual finished products, components like overhead and labor, and more incidental items like office ...

An asset utilization ratio that indicates how long goods remain in inventory or unsold. The average inventory period ratio is measured by dividing days in a year by inventory turnover, (365/inventory ...

Beginning inventory is the book value of a company’s inventory at the start of an accounting period. It is also the value of inventory carried over from the end of the preceding accounting period.