Supporting performance objective 56 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on taking inventory are included in this packet. (The packet is the first in a set of nine on performing computational clerical activities--CE 016 951-959.) The student materials include information on inventorying, an instruction sheet for an included student activity, and a check-out activity. The instructor's manual includes instructions for duplicating form materials related to the two activities and answer keys for the activities. The materials are designed for self-paced individual instruction and may be adapted for use with large groups. (A separate booklet--CE 016 911--lists contents for the nine packets in this set along with those in several other sets--seventy-eight packets in all--based on the same V-TECS catalog.) (JT)