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   Inventory
   For companies: Raw materials, items available for sale or in the process of being made ready for sale. They can be individually valued by several different means, including cost or current market value, and collectively by FIFO, LIFO or other techniques. The lower value of alternatives is usually used to preclude overstating earnings and assets. For security firms: securities bought and held by a broker or dealer for resale.
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   Inventory
   Is the firmís position with the intent of quick resell or repurchase. Can refer to the open positions taken in the course of market making activities. This is opposed the Investment Account.
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   inventory
   Stock-on-hand. An analysis of inventory in the store which provides the company with valuable information regarding shrink, inventory level and management performance.
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   Inventory
   A uniform set of descriptions of granules from one or more data sets with information required to select and obtain a subset of those granules. Granule descriptions typically include temporal and spatial coverage, data quality indicators, and physical storage information. An inventory may describe physical granules, logical granules, or both, including a mapping between them if they are not identical.
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   inventory
   [n] - (accounting) the value of a firm`s current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods 2. [n] - a detailed list of all the items in stock 3. [n] - making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand 4. [v] - make or include in an itemized record or report
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   Inventory
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   Inventory
   A fulfilment report showing all subscriptions for a given publication, usually sorted by a common parameter such as expiry date, subscription price, term length or source group
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   Inventory
   A company's finished goods, work in progress and raw... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/inventory.htm?id=782&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of inventory'>more</a>
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   Inventory
   Current assets held for sale, or for processing and subsequent re-sale....more on Inventory
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    inventory
    List of goods owned. The owner of a furnished house which is rented out is likely to have an inventory of all the furniture, fixtures, and fittings in the house. In business studies, an inventory...
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    inventory
    total amount of furniture and equipment available for show Category: General • for companies,raw materials,items available for sale or in the process of being made ready for sale Category: Commerce - movement of goods • in business, an -- is a list of materials, work in process, and/or finished goods, together with the value of each item. Category: Commerce - movement of...
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    Inventory
    On-site collection of data on natural resources and their properties.
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    Inventory
    In'ven·to·ry noun ; plural Inventories . [ Latin inventarium : confer Late Latin inventorium , French inventaire , Old French also inventoire . See Invent .] An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a ...
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    Inventory
    In'ven·to·ry transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Inventoried ; present participle & verbal noun Inventorying .] [ Confer French inventorier .] To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. « I will giv ...
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    inventory
    A detailed, often descriptive, list of items. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    inventory
    stock list noun a detailed list of all the items in stock
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    inventory
    inventorying noun making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; `an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing`; `they held an inventory every month`
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    inventory
    take stock verb make or include in an itemized record or report; `Inventory all books before the end of the year`
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    Inventory
    `Inventory` is a list for goods and materials, or those goods and materials themselves, held available in stock by a business. Inventory are held in order to manage and hide from the customer the fact that manufacture/supply delay is longer than delivery delay, and also to ease the effect of imperfections in the manufacturing process that lower production efficiencies if production capacity stands idle for lack of materials.
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    Inventory
    For companies: Raw materials, items available for sale or in the process of being made ready for sale. They can be individually valued by several different means, including cost or current market value, and collectively by FIFO (First in, first out), LIFO (Last in, first out) or other techniques. The lower value of alternatives is usually used to p...
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    inventory
    (in´vәn-tor″e) a comprehensive list of personality traits, aptitudes, and interests. California Personality Inventory(CPI) a self-report, true-false questionnaire designed to measure aspects of personality style. It is generally used in counseling si...
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    Inventory
    • (v. t.) To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. • (n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of ...
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    inventory
    in business, any item of property held in stock by a firm, including finished goods ready for sale, goods in the process of production, raw ... [9 related articles]
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    inventory
    inventory 1. A detailed list of articles, such as goods and chattels, or parcels of land, found to have been in the possession of a person at his decease or conviction, sometimes with a statement of the nature and value of each; hence any such detailed statement of the property of a person, of the goods or furniture in a house or messuage, or the like. 2....
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    Inventory
    The quantity of any security owned by a trader, or, referring to the items owned by a company, specifically, items such as raw material and finished product. Discover What It’s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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