Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and ...

One sure-fire way to determine exactly what your business has in its inventory is to go in and count every single item. However, taking a physical inventory isn't always practical or even possible, so ...

It's not always easy to make inventory management a priority, but if you let it slip it can take down your whole operation. Knowing how to find the just-right balance between sales and inventory is ...

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 ...

How a company values its inventory affects its income statement and bottom line. "Average cost" and "last in, first out," or LIFO, are two of the most common methods for valuing inventory. Both rely ...