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Why is the normal operating cycle for a merchandising company likely to be longer than for a service company?
Merchandising Companies purchase and sell directly and is ordinarily longer than a service company because of the inventory and its eventual sale lengthen the cycle, which differ merchandising and service companies.
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Publix is a retail merchandiser.
Cost of goods sold and Gross profit
Well if you look at it by the basics you will see both use the same Net income = revenue - expenses. However the income statement for the service company subtracts the operating expenses from the revenues to arrive at net income. The merchandising company subtracts the cost of merchandising from the revenue to arrive at gross profit. It then subtracts all other operating expenses to arrive at net income.
Well if you look at it by the basics you will see both use the same Net income = revenue - expenses. However the income statement for the service company subtracts the operating expenses from the revenues to arrive at net income. The merchandising company subtracts the cost of merchandising from the revenue to arrive at gross profit. It then subtracts all other operating expenses to arrive at net income.
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what are the some examples of merchandising business ?
As you can see, in merchandising companies we have more special components of revenues and expenses than service companies. Besides, merchandising have two different systems periodic inventory system and perpetual inventory system. Each system has own way to count goods.
Some of the steps may change. A merchandising company sells products, therefore the will have to consider the cost of goods sold, etc to find their net profit. A service company provides a service, therefore they won't have a cost of goods sold account, but instead figure supply expense. For the most part the steps will be either the same or very similar, however, accounts used will change.
jobs have shifted from manfacturing to service industries