India - Informal Non-Agricultural Enterprises Survey: NSS 55th Round : July 1999 - June 2000

In any trading unit generally some goods are left in stock at any point of time. Items 431 and 432 will record the opening and closing value of such stock at purchase price. The value of stock should include the credit purchases also. It is not easy to get the stock figures from the trading enterprise. As a proxy measure, capital locked up in stock may be collected. The estimates of the stock figures will be noted at the beginning and at the end of the reference month. The difference of items 432 and 431 will be noted with proper sign against item 433, which will refer to the change in stock of trading goods.