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Inventory of parts/finished products

SL
31/07/2023
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Dear entrepreneurs,

As a starting entrepreneur, stock management is not entirely clear to me. I make earrings myself and therefore need various parts. Am I supposed to keep a list in Excel from each part with the amounts and unit prices so that I can use this list at the end of the year to report my inventory, or is it sufficient to only report the unsold finished products?

There are many different components (e.g. O-rings in five different sizes) and I don’t see how I can keep track of this. Do I have to indicate in an Excel list which components I used for each pair of earrings sold so that the inventory is correct?

I also use epoxy. That’s a 200 ml bottle. Depending on the size of the earrings, I use between 5 and 15 ml per pair of earrings. Do I just need to keep track of the amount of bottles of epoxy or how many millilitres are left each time I make or sell a pair of earrings? Thank you in advance for your help. An uncertain start-up entrepreneur.

Hey,


It's best to keep it simple.
Create an Excel file where you enter all your parts with the information you have.
For each part, create four columns with 'date', 'Stock IN', 'Stock OUT' and 'Stock TOTAL'.

Make sure that your total always includes the data from "IN and OUT".

At the bottom of "TOTAL", add up what goes IN and OUT of your stock. Every year, you then do a stock count to update this.
Good luck!














Just check at the end of the year (sometime around 31 December): how much of the stuff I use to make earrings do I still have in state? Multiply those products from their purchase price, and that's your inventory.

You don't need to keep track of this in between, just on 31 December.

Thank you for your answers.

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