Business
Stock count Template
Expected against counted, with the difference in its own column.
Four steps
How to print a stock count
- 1
Start from this form
Opens on the stock count: Location, Date, Counted by, Stock, To follow up and the rest.
- 2
Put your own heading on it
Replace "Stock Count" with a name, a business or a date range.
- 3
Set the row height
23 rows at 6 mm fits more in; 14 mm suits a form filled in by hand.
- 4
Print or save as PDF
The expected column, before you start counting is the line to get right.
Who prints this
Small shops, market traders and anyone running stock from a spare room, at the point where "I think we have about ten" stops being good enough.
The field that decides whether it works
The expected column, before you start counting. Filling it in afterwards means you count toward the number you hoped for, which is the one way to make a stocktake worthless.
Why it is laid out this way
Expected, counted and difference each get a column, and the difference comes last so it is written down rather than worked out afterwards. A blank in that column reads as a job left unfinished, which a sheet with one number column cannot show you.
What is on the sheet
3 sections, in this order: Location, Date, Counted by; Stock; To follow up. Set the row height anywhere between 6 and 14 mm across its 23 ruled rows, put your own heading at the top, and find the stock count alongside 3 other forms on the shop paperwork page.
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