inventory verification.
The materials ledger contains an account for each material used in the manufacturing process.
Each account shows the number of units on hand and their cost.
The materials ledger provides a perpetual inventory of the individual item of material in the storeroom.
Errors in recording receipts or issues of materials in the materials ledger may affect the reliability of the inventory totals.
To guard against error, the materials on hand should be checked periodically against the individual materials ledger account balances.
The usual practice in to count one lot of materials at a time, spacing the time of the counts so that a complete checkof all inventory in the storeroom can be made within a fixed period of time, such as three months.
these periodic checks have the advantage of eliminating the costly and time-consuming task of counting the entire inventory at one time.
To guard against carelessness or dishonesty, the count should be made by other than the storeroom keeper or the stores ledger clerk.
The person making the count should prepare an inventory report similar to the one shows in figure 2-14.
If the total indicated in the count differs from the balance in the materials ledger account, an immediate correcting entry should be made in the affected materials ledger account.
The correcting entries in the general ledger account may be made in total at the end of the month, prior to the preparation of the monthly financial statements.
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