Stock Audit is an area of specialization and core competence for Ruchi Anand & Associates. Internal Audit Services are our best because of our unparallel reach and all India network. Assets e.g. Stocks and physical assets such as raw materials are important real assets and need repeat watch. As a large number of companies are operating across the borders through multiple locations, some even with various channel partners, ensuring this watch is challenge. We offer our focused services to companies to keep them assured of their physical assets.
Our special Stock Audit team follows a strict audit and reporting mechanism that strives for best and makes sure that each minute aspect of stocks is evaluated and findings are reported in a transparent manner to levels concerned. Stock audits are also undertaken for banks and other financial institutions which have extended credit to businesses against physical goods and assets. We have big enough network throughout India for quick and simultaneous audits at multiple locations.
We take full care to provide you with comprehensive and most accurate figures of inventories. During this audit, all the records of purchase, sale and movements of stock is taken carefully.
Ruchi Anand & Associates currently provides three types of Stock Audits:
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Physical Conditions Audit |
Compliance to Processes & Procedure Audit |
Associated Processes & Procedure Audit |
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| Advising on best possible way for arranging inventory | Physical count of stock | Audit of Stocks lying at outside locations |
| Recognition of inventory and WIP |
Comparison of physical and recorded stock |
Use of advanced technology for stock management |
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Advising on storage arrangements, to protect against deterioration |
Watch on existence of numerical counts for stock, use of tag sheets | Documentation of stock (through photographs) |
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Identification of WIP, including stage of completion |
Random checking or Sampling of Inward and Outward stock movement process | |
| Disposal/handling of obsolete stock : identification and segregation | Checking of sealed inventories |
Key benefits of Stock Audits:
Advantages:
Stock audit is becoming more important as businesses is becoming multi-location and vendors, dealers, partners becoming a key to the business process. Assets like stock, physical equipments and machinery and even people are located in any of the above premises and a good control mechanism is the need for the smooth running of the business.
Following are the main aspects which are taken care while performing stock audit:
