# Opening Stock

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**Duration: 2:06**

This tutorial demonstrates updating opening stock balance of an item. Following same steps, you can also reconcile stock of an item with respect to physical stock in a warehouse.

If you maintain serialized inventory, [click here]({{url_prefix}}/user/videos/learn/serialized-inventory.html) for the tutorial on updating it's opening stock in ERPNext.