Guides on stock, purchasing, point-of-sale counter operations, and day-end reconciliation for businesses that sell stock.
Adjusting the ledger to match a verified count is correct. Adjusting it and filing the cause is how the same nineteen units disappear again next quarter. A full worked count, decomposed into three named causes, with every figure's arithmetic shown.
Read guideThe rule fired correctly and the shelf was still empty. A reorder point is a guess about demand and a guess about lead time, written in the language of arithmetic — with every figure in the worked example checkable by hand.
Read guideA discount is a term of the sale. A refund is a movement of money after it. They both reduce a number, and that is precisely why a spreadsheet cannot tell you which one you have done.
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