Depending on the circumstances, the Judge may or may not grant that request. You should ask the IRS attorney if he or she will agree with the request for continuance and you should let the Tax Court know if there is any objection. The Judge may or may not grant your request for continuance.
If differences exist, then adjustments should be made to get the accounting counts to match the warehouse counts. A full physical inventory is usually performed when all inventory movements are stopped to ensure better accuracy. Cycle counts represent a procedure to validate inventory quantity in the accounting system through regular partial counts.
physical counts of inventory are never done with perpetual inventory systems the main difference between perpetual and periodic inventory systems is the timing of the allocation of costs between inventory and cost of goods sold