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 ...

For companies that sell a product, inventory is a major consideration. The more inventory you have, the more money that’s tied up in a static product. Until you sell the product, that money isn’t ...

Balancing the spending of funds for purchasing items for inventory and the income of cash through sales is a difficult yet important task. For home builders, whose inventory items are often ...

Financial ratios are relationships determined from a company’s financial information and used for comparison purposes. Examples include such often referred to measures as return on investment (ROI), ...

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Here's an under-covered but very interesting economic data point: the Census Bureau's inventory-to-sales ratio. Right now, this ratio is spiking, indicating that businesses in the US are accumulating ...

Just over a week after Yingli Green Energy issued a SEC filing detailing the extent of its indebtedness, analysis shows the PV manufacturing giant to have a very high 95% liability to asset ratio and ...

An organization holds inventory in the form of raw materials and finished goods. Inventory comprises the raw materials and finished goods held by the organization during a given period. From an ...