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U.S. business inventories edged up in October as modest increases in stocks at retailers and wholesalers were partially offset by a decline at manufacturers. Inventories rose 0.1% after being ...
Business inventories increased 0.4% after rising 0.9% in August, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product. U.S. business inventories ...
Business sales are down and inventories are up, according to a U.S. Department of Commerce report [link opens in PDF] released today. Seasonally adjusted manufacturer sales and shipments fell 0.4% ...
Business sales were down and inventories were up for January, according to a Commerce Department report (link opens in PDF) released today. Overall sales dropped a seasonally adjusted 0.3% to $1. ...
A positive flow of intended inventory investment occurs when a firm expects that sales will be high enough that the current level of inventories on hand may be insufficient—perhaps because in the presence of very short-term fluctuations in the timing of customer purchases, there is a risk of temporarily being unable to supply the product when a customer demands it.
Inventory proportionality is used to balance the inventories of the different grades of motor fuel, each stored in dedicated tanks, in proportion to the sales of each grade. Excess inventory is not seen or valued by the consumer, so it is simply cash sunk (literally) into the ground.
In accounting, the inventory turnover is a measure of the number of times inventory is sold or used in a time period such as a year. It is calculated to see if a business has an excessive inventory in comparison to its sales level. The equation for inventory turnover equals the cost of goods sold divided by the average inventory.
Business sales and inventories are both up, according to a Commerce Department report for October (link opens as pdf) released today. Seasonally adjusted sales increased 0.5% to $1,307 billion for ...