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Inventory and Stock

CaseWare IDEA Applications


Inventory and stock can vary in volume and cost within organizations.

 

Analyses

 

  • Reconcile physical counts to computed amounts
  • Analyze usage and ordering to improve turnover
  • Analyze high value transactions
  • Summarize and stratify turnover by stock item
  • Summarize stock on-hand by group, location, type, etc.
  • Create custom reports on stock and high value balances
  • Review product reordering volumes by item, warehouse, and vendor
  • Summarize products by group, location, type, etc.
  • Summarize and stratify turnover by stock item in any order
  • Age inventory (e.g. by date of receipt)

 

Calculations

 

  • Report on products in order of profitability
  • Statistically analyze usage and ordering to improve turnover
  • Test clerical accuracy of totals and extensions
  • Check product reordering volume by item, warehouse, and vendor
  • Determine the percentage change in sales, price and/or cost levels by product/vendor
  • Assess the financial viability of LIFO versus FIFO management

 

Exception Tests

 

  • Identify surplus obsolete/damaged inventory by sorted turnover analysis
  • Identify differences between standard costs and actual costs
  • Identify stock acquired from group companies
  • Segregate variances from standard pricing in amount order
  • Isolate stock lines/products with cost greater than retail price, with zero/negative quantities,or with zero/negative prices
  • Isolate items where stock exceeds maximum stock levels
  • Select items from perpetual stock for test reconciliation

 

Gaps and Duplicates

 

  • Test for duplicate parts, item numbers, prices or descriptions

 

Matching and Comparing

 

  • Compare yearly volume with on-hand quantity for stock items
  • Compare cost to retail price to look for pricing discrepancies
  • Compare the value of physical counts to General Ledger value

 

Sampling

 

  • Attribute Sampling, Random Sampling or Stratified Random Sampling for physical verification or checking additions

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