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Useful reads on warehouses, stock counts and audits.
Year-end stock count: a plan built backwards from the closing dateLeave the year-end count to the final week and mistakes follow. Here is how a plan looks when it is split into stages and worked backwards from the closing date.
Outsourcing a stock count: how to write the briefFor the contractor to deliver a precise result, the brief must be precise. What to put in it: the site, cut-off date, report format and who is responsible.
No fixed-asset register? How to build one from scratchIn many firms the equipment list is incomplete or out of date. The steps: walk the site, build the register from scratch and match it against the accounting records.
The counting team: lead, counter, checker and scribeEven a skilled crew makes errors when roles are blurred. How duties are shared inside the team: who counts, who checks and who keeps the records.
Who signs what in a stock count: a signature tableA properly completed document loses weight without the right signatures. A table of who signs: committee, custodian, contractor and manager.
Stock count vs warehouse audit: how they differ, when you need bothA count answers 'what do we have and how much'; an audit answers 'why do the figures differ'. We compare their aims, outputs and when to order both.
All articles (40)
- Year-end stock count: a plan built backwards from the closing date
- Outsourcing a stock count: how to write the brief
- No fixed-asset register? How to build one from scratch
- The counting team: lead, counter, checker and scribe
- Who signs what in a stock count: a signature table
- Stock count vs warehouse audit: how they differ, when you need both
- Changing the custodian of stock: how the handover count runs
- Your own count before the auditor arrives: what and when
- Computers and office equipment: counting by serial number
- Count day: what the client's own staff do and should avoid
- A contractor's count report: what the owner and accountant get
- Do you need a deeper audit after the count? Six signals
- Stock counts in mid-size and large firms: what each department does
- Comparing count proposals: eight criteria beyond the price
- Counting equipment: working, under repair, idle
- Night and weekend counts: shifts, transport and safety
- Accepting the contractor's work: the handover certificate
- A one-week warehouse audit programme, day by day
- Counting across branches: one standard, several teams
- A stock count before selling a business: figures a buyer trusts
- Fleet inventory: papers, mileage and where each vehicle is
- Counting pallets on high racking: equipment and safety
- Consolidating branch results into one report: layout and pitfalls
- Outsourced routine control: the schedule and reporting rhythm
- Manufacturing counts: raw materials, work in progress, finished goods
- A stock-count service contract: clauses worth checking
- Choosing asset tags: paper, film or metal
- Count-day surprises: eight scenarios and what to decide
- The closing meeting on results: agenda and decisions
- Written procedures versus daily practice: what an audit sees
- Stock with processors and repairers: tracking what is off site
- The pre-count site visit: what the contractor finds out
- On the books but not on site: how to search for a missing asset
- The count team's kit: scanners, labels, lights and ladders
- Checking the document pack before signing: ten points
- A loss map: at which stage goods 'disappear'
- A stock count after a fire, flood or theft
- Giving an outside team site access: passes, NDA and safety
- Equipment held by remote staff: how to verify it from a distance
- Closing the count day: collecting sheets and reopening the site