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Sales

Sales is the process of selling goods or services. The process begins with the request to buy by a customer or a offer to sell by a seller. Then follows the payment and change of title.

Contributors in Sales

Sales

Latent demand

Professional careers; Sales

Demand for a product which can satisfy a want which is unable to be satisfied by any existing product.

Liquidity

Professional careers; Sales

Current assets, other than inventory and work in progress, to which a firm has ready access, liquidity represents a company's ability to meet its immediate liabilities.

Variable costs

Professional careers; Sales

Costs that vary directly with the volume or quantity produced, variable costs plus fixed costs equal total costs.

Direct costs

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Costs which can be attributed directly to the production of a particular product.

Order filling costs

Professional careers; Sales

Costs associated with filling orders - warehousing, transportation, order processing, billing and collection of payments.

Holding costs

Professional careers; Sales

Costs associated with keeping inventory, including warehousing, spoilage, obsolescence, interest and taxes, also called inventory carrying costs.

Carrying costs

Professional careers; Sales

Costs associated with maintaining inventory, such as financing, storage, insurance and obsolescence.

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