Know your stock, your sales, your profit, and your cash every day
Free Excel templates for Nigerian trading and retail businesses. Track daily sales and inventory, maintain a cashbook, manage customer balances, track supplier payables, and analyse product profitability.
Templates included
Key features
- Daily sales by product
- Auto stock deduction on sale
- Low stock alert threshold
- Daily and monthly sales totals
- Best-selling product analysis
Real use case
A wholesale FMCG trader uses this to know exactly which products are moving and which are sitting. It identified 3 slow-moving SKUs that were tying up ₦850,000 in dead stock.
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The Financial Records Every Nigerian Trading Business Must Keep
Trading businesses in Nigeria operate in one of the most competitive and fast-moving commercial environments in Africa. Margins are often thin, credit terms are standard, and cash flow can turn negative overnight when a large customer delays payment or a supplier demands upfront payment.
Stock management is where most Nigerian traders lose money invisibly. Without a systematic sales and inventory tracker, shrinkage, spoilage, and petty theft accumulate over weeks and months without detection. A daily stock reconciliation against recorded sales takes less than fifteen minutes and eliminates this silent profit drain.
The daily cashbook is the most fundamental financial record for any trading business. The discipline of reconciling it daily against physical cash on hand creates the accountability that prevents small discrepancies from growing into significant losses.
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