Steve,

Thank you. I also think that is a perfectly good way to do it. I do understand Cost of Goods Sold (and I think it should be contra the related sales / revenue (income) account.

That's the way I'll do it.

Thanks so much!

Eric

On 12/20/22 11:25, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
Eric,

As you noted, they are an Asset.  Now, I'm not a CPA or even a book keeper (though my wife did that job for a number of years for an architect).  Here is how I am doing it.

1.  Setup an Asset account for Inventory (or whatever you want to name it). 2.  Setup an account for Cost of Goods Sold.  (Mine is a contra account in Income -- your CPA might want it as an Expense). 3.  Divide your inventory value by the number of items (if only one type of item or break out a similar Cost/Item for each type of item). 4.  When you make a sale, reduce Inventory by the COGS for that item and increase the appropriate account from step 2.

Note, I didn't use Credit/Debit as I forget which one is supposed to be closest to the window.  I think that changed recently when I switched my desk around and the other side of the monitor is now nearest the window.


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