Inventory is a detailed, orderly and valued list of items that make up the assets of an enterprise or person at a given time. In the past it was normal for inventories to be made by physical means (written on paper), but now they are usually kept in databases centrally for an entire company, even if there are businesses or small shops that continue to do so with paper.

The inventory is as follows:

detailed because the characteristics of each of the elements that make up the heritage are specified.
ordered because it groups the patrimonial elements in their corresponding accounts and the accounts in their patrimonial masses.
valued because the value of each asset is expressed in monetary units. The variation of numbers found in an inventory for example the company data reunion