Stock statement
Type of business statement
A stock statement is a business statement that provides information on the value and quantity of stock-related transactions. This statement describes how much stock was purchased at what value and when, and is a matter of accounts and finance supplied by the cash credit account holder (e.g. a private limited company) to banks providing loans at a regular interval. It details opening and closing balances for transacted items as well.
Banks providing loans wish to know their customers' stock values as of a certain date. To ascertain this value, an accountant first needs to know the existing quantity of the company's stock on that day. This quantity will then be multiplied by the rate of its market value. The result will be the stock value. Making a statement of all kinds of stocks in a company's store on that particular date becomes a "bank stock statement", also known as an "inventory statement".
To know the existing quantity of stocks, an owner may count the materials in the company's store(s).
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