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How Small Retail Businesses Can Reduce Shrinkage: VGNC Tips

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Inventory shrinkage is one of the major hindrances in the growth of small retail businesses . Inventory shrink is the difference between the expected revenue to the actual revenue the retail business makes. Now that been said, how can this shrinkage be reduced so that your retail business can achieve its full potential? Loss prevention is the next step to reduce shrinkage in the business. However, it requires a lot of precision and expertise in identifying the factors associated with shrinkage and accordingly act upon it. Let’s Understand First What Is Shrinkage? Shrinkage is the loss of inventory for certain important factors such as administrative error, damage of goods while in transit to the store or in-store damages, shoplifting, employee theft, and even vendor fraud. Identifying the Causes of Shrinkage There are various reasons associated with loss. These can be damaged goods during the transit to your store or in-store damages of goods. There can be shoplifti...

Ways to Strengthen Internal Audit to Meet Stakeholder’s Needs

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Internal Audit is one of the critical processes of the businesses. While it helps stakeholders know the exact place where the business stands, the Internal audit also helps in the identification of business operations that need improvement and helps in increasing the revenues its optimisation. But not all businesses are aware of what impact internal audit has on their business especially its relationship with its stakeholders. Often, the audit report fails to truly represent all the essential data and list all identifiable risks about a business enterprise. In such a situation, stakeholders might lose their confidence such reports or the enterprise itself. As an internal audit is a standard process that helps management to take their decisions, a weak audit report will result in weak decision making.  At VGNC , we believe that your business must focus on strengthening internal audit process to be aligned to the needs of the stakeholders and to make well-informe...

How to Maintain Inventory Accuracy: Expert Tips by VGNC

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Inventory, physical supplies sold, used or distributed, are one of the most valuable assets for your business. And to keep your business operations running smoothly, you need to track this critical component. Irrespective of the inventory tracking system you use, the accuracy of your inventory is crucial for the success of your business. In this article, our experts at VGNC will discuss some tips that will help you maintain accurate inventory. Choose The Right Quality Program There are a wide number of inventory quality programs such as ISO, Six Sigma, quality management, etc. You need to choose the quality program for your business efficiently. After you have selected the quality program, you need to ensure that everyone in the company understands and supports the program. Select The Right Inventory Monitoring Method If you want to achieve accuracy in your inventory, you need to focus on selection and implementation of inventory tracking system. A systematic a...

Improving Your Internal Audit Reports: Expert Tips By VGNC

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  A good audit report should lead to essential information and separate the identified risks into those affecting the single business unit and enterprise as a whole. It should also embed links to assist the reader in finding what they need. All auditors produce reports after completing the auditing process. It is a standard activity expected by management and other stakeholders of the company. The audit report records the result of the audit procedure which becomes the foundation of sustainable growth and improvement in the organization. If you want to achieve stable growth, you need to focus on making your internal audit reports clear and effective. A high-quality audit report helps the management to make informed and timely decisions. Why You Need to Improve Your Audit Report To Increase Visibility As the audit reports are distributed to the internal stakeholders and external auditor, the reports must provide clear information that is neither overstating nor understating ...

Ways to Incorporate Strategic Objectives into Internal Audit Plan

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Internal auditingteams must check whether or not your company is incorporating its strategic objectivesin audit plans and other operational concerns. Your company will face existential risk due to strategic risks . Strategic risks may cause 80% damage to your company’s market share. Often, internal audit teams spend the majority of their time on operational and financial audits ignoring the strategic risks. Although all these areas are crucial, audit teams need to incorporate your company’s strategic objectives into their audit plan. This will help you to gain an insight of whether or not your company is on the right track or not.  At VGNC, we believe that internal audit is incomplete without incorporation of strategic objectives. Today, we will discuss a few methods using which you can incorporate your company’s strategic objective in your audit plan. Bottom-UpApproach One of the popular approaches used in investing, this method can help you to ensur...