Knowing just how much inventory is enough for current or projected sales can be a daunting task for any business. Too much on-hand inventory can cut into profits, and too little inventory may mean ...

In industries such as retail, success depends on management's ability to make or buy the right amount of inventory and to move that inventory through the distribution system as quickly as possible.

A common way that analysts and investors measure the performance of a company selling goods is by using financial ratios. One ratio that is useful for evaluating a company's effectiveness in utilizing ...

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 ...

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 ...