Finished goods
Accounting
Business
(noun)
Goods ready for sale to customers.
(noun)
goods that are completed as to manufacturing but not yet sold or distributed to the end-user.
Examples of Finished goods in the following topics:
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Inventory Types
- Most manufacturing organizations usually divide their inventory into raw materials, work in process, finished goods, and goods for sales.
- Most manufacturing organizations usually divide their inventory into raw materials, work in process, finished goods, and goods for sales.
- Work in process, WIP: Materials and components that have began their transformation to finished goods.
- Finished goods: Goods ready for sale to customers.
- Finished goods is a relative term.
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Categories of Goods Included in Inventory
- Most manufacturing organizations usually divide their "goods for sale" inventory into raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.
- It may also include finished cans that are not yet packaged into cartons or pallets.
- Work in process or work in progress (WIP) - Materials and components that have began their transformation to finished goods.
- Returned goods that are salable.
- Distinguish between the raw materials, work in process, finished goods and goods for resale
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Inputs to the Production Schedule
- Production schedule can be divided into raw materials, work in process, finished goods and goods for resale.
- When the good is completed as to manufacturing but not yet sold or distributed to the end user, it is called a "finished good. "
- Work in process, WIP - materials and components that have begun their transformation to finished goods.
- Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process but have not yet been sold or distributed to the end user.
- Finished goods is a relative term.
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Defining Aggregate Expenditure: Components and Comparison to GDP
- Aggregate expenditure is the current value of all the finished goods and services in the economy.
- In economics, aggregate expenditure is the current value of all the finished goods and services in the economy.
- The aggregate expenditure determines the total amount that firms and households plan to spend on goods and services at each level of income.
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Total Quality Management
- Workers in a cell environment tend to have a greater sense of ownership and pride in their work because they have a "big picture" view of the product as it is converted from raw material to a finished good.
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Nature of Inventory
- Inventory represents finished and unfinished goods which have not yet been sold by a company.
- It may also include finished cans that are not yet packaged into cartons or pallets.
- Its finished good inventory consists of all the filled and labeled cans of food in its warehouse that it has manufactured and wishes to sell to food distributors (wholesalers), to grocery stores (retailers), and even perhaps to consumers through arrangements like factory stores and outlet centers.
- Inventory represents finished and unfinished goods which have not yet been sold by a company. .
- Work in process, WIP - materials and components that have began their transformation to finished goods.
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Inventory Management
- Inventory represents finished and unfinished goods that have not yet been sold by a company.
- It may also include finished cans that are not yet packaged into cartons or pallets.
- Its finished good inventory consists of all the filled and labeled cans of food in its warehouse that it has manufactured and wishes to sell to food distributors (wholesalers), to grocery stores (retailers), and even perhaps to consumers through arrangements like factory stores and outlet centers.
- Inventory management is primarily about specifying the location and amount of stocked goods.
- Work in process (WIP): materials and components that have began their transformation to finished goods
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Production Recipients
- The company's supply chain illustrates the total process of transforming raw materials into a finished product, and then selling that finished product to consumers .
- Before the production of a good can be initiated, you need to have all of the necessary elements.
- This is the process that transforms the elements acquired from the prior step into the finished good.
- Finished goods must be transported to stores and other locations where consumers can obtain the good.
- A wholesaler is someone who sells a good to smaller stores, who in turn sells the good to consumers.
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Internal Controls
- Inventory internal controls ensure that a company has sufficient resources to meet its customers' needs without having too much goods.
- Internal controls over a company's inventory are meant to ensure that management has an accurate count of what materials and goods it has available for sale and to protect those goods from being spoiled, stolen or otherwise made unavailable for sale.
- Goods and resources of the same or similar type should be kept in the same general area of the warehouse to minimize confusion and to ensure accurate counts.
- As the material is processed into the goods for resale, the amount of raw material used should be deducted from the "raw material inventory" and the amount of goods that result from the process should be added to the "finished goods inventory. " As each finished item is sold, the "finished goods inventory" should be decreased by that amount.
- Physical inventory counts are a way of ensuring that a company's inventory management system is accurate and as a check to make sure goods are not being lost or stolen.
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Consumer goods marketing and business-to-business (industrial) marketing
- Consumer goods marketers sell to individuals who consume the finished product.
- For the consumer goods marketer, the various marketing components are relatively fixed.
- In addition, consumer goods marketers might employ emotional appeals and are faced with the constant battle of getting their product into retail outlets.