The inventory (Latin inventus ) is an exhaustive list of entities considered as goods in order to facilitate of it the evaluation or the Gestion. It is generally carried out at particular times: end of the year; beginning of Lease (inventory of fixtures); end-of-life (Inventory after death), etc

Libraries, files and information center

For a Library or a Information center, the inventory consists in drawing up the list of the Document S had by the establishment. In the Files, inventory indicates a type of Instrument of research describing each part which constitutes an article, for example each sheet being in a bundle or a file. The other type of instrument of research of use in the files, the Repertory , described the whole of the contents of a article.
The comparison between the list and what exists is called verification.

Companies with lucrative goal

For the companies with lucrative goal, it must be made to establish the Bilan. It makes it possible to fix the value of the Stock and to control if no goods disappeared physically (by obsolescence, loss or flight) or comptablement (by error of management) and to have thus an image of real stocks at the time of the inventory.

For that, are indexed all the existing goods in the warehouses to compare them with the list purchases and sales. If all occurs well, stocks at the date of inventory must correspond to the difference between the entries and the exits of stock since the last inventory (by holding account also stocks which existed at the time of this last inventory). If it misses goods compared to this calculation, it is necessary to wonder about the origin of disappearances or the errors of gestion.
It is necessary in addition to appreciate the commercial losses in value of the unusable or obsolete goods become.

It is possible to carry out cycle countings, bearing on a part only of the Stock S (and not totality), in order not to stop the line of business during this opération.
The third type of inventory is the continuous review, the products are inventoried after each entry and/or exit. Thus physical stocks are controlled more regularly, the variations analyzed more quickly. However this inventory is not legally recognized, and does not exempt a total or annual inventory, and does not take into account the dead products door frames or stocks but it facilitates the annual inventory by reducing the anomalies.
Generally, an inventory can be associated with a Liste or a catalog.

individual Inheritance

The companies should not be satisfied to inventory their stocks regularly, but the whole of their credits (existing goods and sums to be received) and passive (debts and financial liabilities).

The private individuals are led them-also to inventory their goods and debts, in an occasional or periodic way, as well for their own regular information as at the time of financial decisions (loans, placements, large purchases, projects…) or of income tax return, and of course in the event of succession (e.g. inventory after death).

Collective inheritance

The management of the natural heritage and the protection of the biodiversity of the planet from now on are based on vast a program of inventory and cartography (relayed by CNRS in France), not only to count the fauna and the Flore of each area and country of the world, but also to analyze the various ecosystems and the sociology of the alive species (Phytosociology…), to locate the invasive species or those in danger of extinction. Within each discipline of the Sciences of nature, one sees multiplying the regional contributions to these ecological inventories : inventories botanical, entomological, mycologic, etc the cartography is organized in more or less fine territorial meshs, of 16 or 50 km ².

From this patrimonial point of view, the term tends to spread and one speaks now about inventory about literary works, etc

Paradoxically, the national accountings seldom comprise an inventory passive credits/. However some countries were distinguished for their organization and their implementation from specific inventories:

  • the France with the Inventory which deals with the monuments and of the objets d'art;
  • the Italy via ICCD - Istituto Central per it Catalogo E Documentazione which deals of architecture, archeology, demonstration-anthropological good and objets d'art;
  • the England via RCHME - Royal Commission one the Historical Monuments off England whose role is to record and to count the national heritage of the historic buildings and archaeological.

Poetry

The Poète S surrealist S, with their manner, used the inventory like forms poetic. The most known inventory is that of Jacques Prévert which deliberately mixes with the objects without apparent report/ratio the ones with the others. From this literary experimentation was born an expression, one speaks thus about “one inventory in Prévert”.

Methodology

In all the cases, a solid methodology must be implemented to carry out an inventory. One will be able usefully to see the example of the necessary informations for the Ministry for the Culture in France.

The mass of data to be treated is often such as the use of a Database Informatique is necessary.

See too

Internal bonds

  • Raised of vegetation

External bonds

  • general Inventory of the French inheritance
  • Inventory of the world heritage by UNESCO

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