{"id":4839,"date":"2014-04-04T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T06:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2014-03-30T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:50:12","slug":"inventories-in-either-their-cost-or-net-realisable-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/inventories-in-either-their-cost-or-net-realisable-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventories in either their cost or net realisable value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something to note in your everyday accounting is that your inventory should always be accounting it\u2019s lower or either cost or net realisable value. I know that you may have already known that, but are you really accounting your inventory accordingly?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re adding some expenses to your cost of inventory you\u2019re treating it most probably pretty accurately. That is of course if those expenses are really relating to inventories at hand. However, when you\u2019re comparing the cost against the selling price of this specific item, are you earning profit or loss? Is the realisable value higher than the cost?\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A definite indication that your inventory is in wrong price, wrong cost is when your gross margin is in fact negative. If your business is making operating losses, it\u2019s also an indication that either your pricing is off or your expenses are too high.<\/p>\n<p>To understand if you\u2019ve got a problem, you must compare your selling price with the cost of the specific good and then you have an overview if your inventory is in its correct value. And not just that, but you will also see if you should also change your pricing to your customers. There\u2019s a reason for each and every loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something to note in your everyday accounting is that your inventory should always be accounting it\u2019s lower or either cost or net realisable value. I know that you may have already known that, but are you really accounting your inventory accordingly? If you\u2019re adding some expenses to your cost of inventory you\u2019re treating it most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-3-inventory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}