A stocktaking asset article system using a mobile terminal in which correct and rapid updates or new registrations of assets in an asset management master database may be accomplished. The mobile terminal has a specified database storing data necessary for the stocktaking, means for reading specific information from the asset article, means for retrieving information regarding the asset article from the specified database on the basis of the specific information, and inputting means for inputting information regarding an asset article recognized as not existing in the specified database. An assets management apparatus has means for extracting the data necessary for the stocktaking from the master database and registering the data as the specified database, and means for reflecting the information inputted from the inputting means upon the stocktaking on the master database.