Thursday, 7 January 2016

PERIODIC INVENTORY SYSTEM



Inventory Systems

For an effective inventory management, an efficient inventory system should be maintained.  Thus the importance of inventory systems cannot be neglected in the Inventory Management.  The two importance types of inventory systems available are

·         Periodic Inventory Systems.

·         Perpetual Inventory Systems.

·         Just –In-Time Inventory Systems.


Periodic Inventory Systems
In this systems the quantity and value of inventory is found out only at the end of the accounting period after having a physical verification of the units in hand.
The cost of materials used or goods sold is obtained by adding the total of inventory purchased during the period to the value of the inventory in hand in the beginning of the period and subtracting the value of inventory at the end of period.In this system the inventory level is not monitored at all during the time interval between the orders, so it has advantage of little or no required record keeping.  The disadvantage is less control.

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