Entry for obsolete inventory

A/c entries 1993 views 5 replies

Dear All,

 

Please share your valuable knowledge regarding the following case :

 

Inventory of some past years from 2005-2012 have become obsolete and now we want to wrte off the said stock from our books.No insurance is taken at all and it will be sent back to US head office.The loss is of abnormal nature.please give me journal entries at the earliest.

Replies (5)

IF THERE IS ANY REALISABLE VALUE OF STOCK THEN WRITE IT DOWN TO ITS REALISABLE VALUE OTHERWISE DONT INCLUDE SUCH STOCK WHILE TAKING CLOSING STOCK AS ON 31-3.THE LOSS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED IF U WILL NOT TAKE SUCH STOCK IN CLOSING STOCK.THUS THERE IS NO ENTRY THUS DONT INCLUDE IT IN CLOSING STOCK 

if there is no realisable value of the stock then  i suppose there shoulb be entry for it

Profit and loss a/c ..... dr

              To stock a/c (obsolete)

 

 

i also want to know about it.. pls experts have a look at this

Agree with CA BHUMIT SHAH

at the time of closing of Accounts Value the Stock at NRV as per AS 2 .

it will adjust the Loss Automaticallly

thank you sir for your valuable reply

But what if I want to show loss as a separate line item?


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