
inventory
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thumb|Electronics inventory Inventory (British English) or stock (American English) is a quantity of the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.
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30 sectionsContents
- Business inventory
- Reasons for keeping stock
- Special terms used in dealing with inventory management
- Typology
- Inventory examples
- Manufacturing
- Capital projects
- Defence inventory
- Virtual inventory
- Costs associated with inventory
- Principle of inventory proportionality
- Purpose
- Applications
- Roots
- High-level inventory management
- Accounting for inventory
- Financial accounting
- Role of inventory accounting
- FIFO vs. LIFO accounting
- Standard cost accounting
- Theory of constraints cost accounting
- National accounts
- Distressed inventory
- Stock rotation
- Inventory credit
- Journal
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Electronics inventory Inventory (British English) or stock (American English) is a quantity of the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.
Inventory management is a discipline primarily about specifying the shape and placement of stocked goods. It is required at different locations within a facility or within many locations of a supply network to precede the regular and planned course of production and stock of materials.