What's the difference between Stocks and Inventory??

Answer 1

Stocks is British English, inventory is American English. In UK textbooks, you'll see items like stocks on hand, stocks in transit, opening stocks, closing stocks, etc. You can have stocks of raw materials and stocks of finished goods. The word inventory is hardly seen.

In a different sense, shares (as in share capital) to the British is stock to the Americans.

Answer 2

stocks - In financial markets, stock is the capital raised by a corporation or joint-stock company through the issuance and distribution of shares. A person or organization that holds at least a partial share of stock is called a shareholder. The aggregate value of a corporation's issued shares is its market capitalization.

Inventory - is a list of goods and materials, or those goods and materials themselves, held available in stock by a business. Inventory are held in order to manage and hide from the customer the fact that manufacture/supply delay is longer than delivery delay, and also to ease the effect of imperfections in the manufacturing process that lower production efficiencies if production capacity stands idle for lack of materials.

Answer 3

stock is whici is ready to ship or deliver...
inventrory is raw material ready to be processed and make a finished good