Word Families 600 Từ vựng TOEIC – Lesson 20: Inventory

Read the following passage and write the words in the blanks below.

adjusted discrepancies reflect subtracts automatically disturbances running tedious crucial liability scanning verifies

In a retail business, inventory has multiple meanings. Inventory means all the goods that a company has on hand or available to it in a warehouse. Inventory also means the process by which the business (1) _____ the number of goods. An accurate account of the inventory available is (2) _____. The amount of stock is a (3) _____ because it is already owned by the business.

Taking an inventory is a physical count of the inventory holdings. Today, almost every business keeps a (4) _____ inventory count by having its sales records tied by computer to its inventory. When a customer makes a purchase, the computer system tied to the register (5) _____ the purchase from the inventory records. If a customer makes a return or an exchange, the inventory numbers will be (6) _____ by the computer (7) _____. That’s often why (8) _____ the bar code is so important in stores. It merchandise is broken or damaged in the stockroom or on the sales floor, the manager will ask the sales and stock help to change the stock holdings to (9) _____ the loss.

As good as the computer records may be, they are just an estimate. At least once a year, most businesses do an actual physical count of the inventory. This process can be (10) _____ but it is necessary as there are always (11) _____ between what the computer says you own and what your physical count says. Often stores close for a day, or at least close early, so that staff can perform the inventory without (12) _____.

Đáp án:

verifies

crucial

liability

running

subtracts

adjusted

automatically

scanning

reflect

tedious

discrepancies

disturbances

Word Families 600 Từ vựng TOEIC – Lesson 20: Inventory

Word Practice 600 Từ vựng TOEIC – Lesson 20: Inventory

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