Stock Periods & COGS

Stock periods break your inventory into accounting periods, like a week or a month, so you can see your cost of goods sold (COGS): how much food you actually used in that time.

Stock Periods Overview

What it is: A stock period is a stretch of time with a beginning and ending inventory value. Prep Station adds up everything that changed your stock during the period and calculates COGS from it.

Why you'd use it:

• Know your real food cost each week or month
• Compare purchases, waste, and food cost from one period to the next
• Lock past periods so later changes don't rewrite your numbers

How it's calculated:

COGS = Beginning Inventory + Purchases − Ending Inventory

Example:

Beginning Inventory   $8,200
+ Purchases           $5,600
− Ending Inventory    $7,900
= COGS                $5,900

Period Statuses