Cycle Counting - Must done by the Interval?

Hi,
We've implemented warehouse management , and we have set "Monthly" for cycle counting indicator "A", that mean, we should perform stocktaking for the materials with indicator "A".
My question is, if we don't execute the transaction LS26 for some monthlys,
For example, we did not perform any stocktaking in Jan, Feb, March..., we just start stocktaking and run tcode LX26 from June, no any cycle counting related tcodes ran before June, what will happen within Feb, Jan and March, ? or that does not matter?
Regards

it does not matter.
from a legal point of view you have to count the materials just once a year.
if you choose cycle counting as inventory method, then you want count more often for better inventory accuracy.
If you finally dont do that........then it just violates your own rules.

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The below is the issue my user asking for.
there are B items are to be counted 6 times a year (Once every two months)..
For example:
If plant A has 1000 B items then 500 should be counted in month one and 500 should be counted in month 2.
However, it seems that all the B movers are in the same month thus the cycle count is for ALL items.
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amar

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Manually in the material master record (storage data)
Automatically using ABC analysis.
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Hi everybody,
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Marking Materials for Cycle Counting
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manually in the material master record. To do this, choose Material ® Change from the Material Master menu.
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