A system for reconciling an inventory record having a count of products,
pricing, and vintaging assigns a price and vintage for instances
written-on to the count when products are found in inventory that are not
accounted for by the inventory record. The price and vintage assigned to
the instances added to the count are statistically determined from
inventory records after outlier values have been removed. The instances
with outlier values may also be removed from the inventory record being
reconciled prior to comparing the inventory record to a recount of the
items in inventory. The representative price and vintage may be stored in
a table that is referenced when performing the reconciliation process. A
substitution table may also be used to find interchangeable product types
and reduce the number of instances to be written-on or written-off.