In: Accounting
1(a) Mr.Abdullah, who has been pursuing B.Tech in IT under diploma
II year in the Salalah College of Technology since 2018, is the
best friend of Mr.Nasser, who has been studying in Business under
diploma II year in the Salalah College of Technology. Both of them
are in home on account of Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown of entire
nation in order to prevent the disease. As Mr.Abdullah is very much
interested in Business and intends to commence retail merchandising
business in Dhofar region after his graduation, He requested Mr.
Nasser to prepare a report in detail explaining the Merchandising
business, payment terms, shipping terms, Merchandise inventory and
two types of inventory system and suggesting the best inventory
system for merchandising business.
Assume you are a Mr. Nasser, Write a Report containing above points
in your own words. .
Merchandising Business is a very common type of business model
where a person acts as a middle-men between manufacturer and
consumer.
Usually, Payment Terms depends upon the level of merchandising if
it is at wholesale, Credit Sale is normal and can have 30-50 days'
of credit policy and in general retail like in the departmental
store, we usually pay cash hand in hand.
Shipping Terms: Several International commercial terms are used for
shipping at international levels like ex-works, Door to Door(DDP)
etc. Usually, In the wholesale business seller ships whereas at the
retail level customer picks from store or door to door is quite
popular as well at the retail level nowadays.
Merchandise Inventory refers to inventory level available for sale
at a particular point of time.
There are two types of popular inventory systems :
1. Perpetual Inventory System which is generally said to be
real-time based inventory system.
2. Periodic Inventory System where the inventory is determined at
regular intervals.
The best Inventory system will be Periodic Inventory system as it
requires less control over inventory but nowadays strict control is
measured over inventory even in merchandise business so the other
system can also be used.
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