Why growing wholesale and retail businesses must transition from end-of-month periodic stock estimation to continuous perpetual valuation.
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Commercial Enterprise Architecture Team
Periodic inventory only calculates Cost of Goods Sold once a month after a painful physical count. For 29 days of the month, business owners have no idea whether they are making money or losing money on specific product lines.
Core Problem Factors
Why manual accounting estimation fails.
Estimating inventory values hides real shrinkage in arbitrary COGS figures.
In XpertPOS, every sales invoice immediately debits COGS and credits Inventory Asset in the general ledger.
Income statements and balance sheets update in real time 24/7.
How transactions update books.
Sale of Rs. 1,000 posted (Cost Rs. 750).
Log all supplier purchase invoices promptly upon goods arrival.
Yes, but instead of full annual shutdowns, you conduct quick daily cycle counts to verify perpetual records.
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An operational manual on perpetual weighted-average costing, multi-UOM packing units, reorder point formulas, and physical stock reconciliation.
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