In accounting, a closing entry is one of the final entries made at year-end to close accounts and transfer the amounts to financial statements, ensuring all temporary accounts are reset for the next accounting period.
Stocktaking is the process of counting and evaluating stock-in-trade, typically carried out at an organization's year end to value the total stock for final accounting purposes.
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