An inventory cycle, also called inventory turnover, or turns, is a measure of how many times during a given period a company sells an volume of products equal to the volume of supplies it keeps on ...

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 ...

Inventory management is a critical skill for business managers and a major consideration for investors and economists. To understand the subtlety of this art, we can use a quantitative metric -- ...

For manufacturers, "cost of goods sold" (COGS) is the cost of buying raw materials and manufacturing finished products. For retailers, it's the cost of obtaining or buying the products sold to ...

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Inventory is something any entrepreneur selling a product will deal with in their day-to-day business. Inventory isn’t a tax deduction. Most people mistakenly believe that inventory is a line-item ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover technology companies, worldwide economies and the stock market On its quarterly results conference call Apple has been ...