At Farahat & Co., we understand that effective inventory management is crucial for operational efficiency and financial accuracy.
Our Inventory Audit Services in Dubai, UAE, are designed to help businesses maintain precise stock records, detect discrepancies, prevent losses, and ensure compliance with accounting standards.
With decades of industry experience, our certified auditors use proven methodologies and advanced tools to deliver detailed inventory assessments tailored to your business needs.
Whether you operate in retail, manufacturing, logistics, or wholesale, we ensure that your inventory records reflect reality, empowering you to make informed decisions and optimize your supply chain.
If the stock of raw materials, finished goods, or other assets cannot be counted and verified by a single person by hand, you need an inventory audit procedure.
Suppose the volume of goods is required to be verified by law. According to the IAS 2, inventory must be measured at its Net Realisable Value.
More than once, when you have required goods or raw materials based on the stock count in books but have not found them in the physical inventory, it is called phantom stock. You may face challenges such as loss of time or money to arrange the stock from elsewhere.
Several reasons, such as theft, data entry, and accounting errors, can cause phantom inventory, and it is one of the most important aspects that should be included in any inventory audit procedure.
Some companies require inventory audits in Dubai because their stocks are stored in third-party warehouses within Dubai or other emirates.
An inventory management audit process is incomplete without a proper internal or external inventory audit.
Farahat and Co. is your partner in conducting an internal inventory audit or an external inventory audit for your company. Every company has a different size and volume of goods they manage, and hence we understand the same and provide a custom inventory audit process for our clients.
Our inventory audit report aims to reduce our client’s stress when it comes to errors in inventory management and the subsequent rise in working capital.
Analytical ratios such as the inventory turnover ratio or unit costs of inventory are a crucial part of the financial analysis of the stock.
Here is how it works:
Each item stocked has a bar code, and hence, the movement of the goods is tracked based on these bar codes or batch codes. A physical inventory count audit ensures that the stock count in financial records is the same as the physical stock.
You will receive a qualified audit opinion on inventory from our experts, who will examine the stock based on the company’s cut-off period, which marks the inventory coming in and going out, considering a buffer of stock that is in the process of going in and moving out of the warehouse.
This helps in accounting for the inventory without any errors.
Every item in the in-stock has its value, but the auditor has to spend some extra time to evaluate the goods of higher value so they can categorize them—A for high-value goods, B for medium, and C for low-value goods.
When inventory has to move domestically or internationally, several costs are associated. An inventory audit in Dubai will consider all such expenses, including breakage or damage during transit to the destination. Freight Cost Analysis also plays an important role when the subsequent rises in transportation costs occur, viz, rising fuel prices due to inflation, thus managing the stock’s price accordingly.
Finished goods inventory is the inventory audit of goods ready to be sold. An inventory audit will consider the value of the goods and simultaneously account for their accurate value in the financial books.
Holding of stock has indirect costs related to it, such as rent of the warehouse, the salary of the security guard, and utilities are a few examples. The overhead analysis is an optional step in an inventory audit. Still, it plays a significant role in accurately calculating the stock cost and thus helps in budgeting for the following year.
An inventory audit helps trace the direct labor costs related to the production of goods. It includes verification of job cards, timesheets, and even third-party labor contracts.
The percentage of goods in production is calculated but determine the work-in-progress inventory. Inventory is in use or about to be used based on the percentage of work completed. Hence, it is a crucial step in an inventory management audit.
Inventory allowance summarizes the general inventory allowance related to obsolete inventory, scraps, etc. This audit is conducted by physically observing the inventory usage during production to determine whether the stock is obsolete or scrap. It also helps select the FIFO or LIFO methods of managing the inventory.
Stock is an asset, and the company must own it. The inventory audit in Dubai ensures that physical stock belongs to the company and not to a customer-owned inventory or is an inventory on consignment from suppliers.
Conducting an inventory audit in Dubai aims to reduce losses due to erroneous inventory accounting and poor inventory management. Farahat and Co. is one of the leading inventory audit companies that has been conducting internal and external audits for companies across the UAE.
Our team of qualified expert auditors is a keen analysts who have helped clients regain a stronghold in their inventory management procedure. We use the latest inventory audit software and support all types of enterprises to accurately remodel their procurements and supply chain approach based on a customized checklist.
Our auditors have assisted companies in successfully auditing and transitioning financial data when companies upgrade to automated inventory management software.