On 19 Feb 2009, at 05:24, Chris Travers wrote: >> ... >> I suspect this usage is "wrong" and I think I have more recently just >> left the description as "miscellaneous item" and added "binder" or >> "stationary" or whatever in the item notes, but since the time I >> started using SQL-Ledger the field was editable, so it "made sense" >> to >> edit it. > ... > The big thing is that your approach works fine as long as everything > is set up as a service. If you set it up as a part, I think FIFO > considerations might bite you if you are also trying to do project > accounting. I.e. you could end up with the wrong purchase price being > associated with an invoice. Probably not a big deal for an accounting > period sinc ethe other invoice would be unlikely to go across periods, > but if it could skew project balance sheets.
I don't think this matters to me. Not only do I ever use this for one- off items of insignificant value, but I don't look at COGS or do project accounting or any of that stuff at all. > If you set it up as a service, and it is a quick turn-around item, > then you can just attach it to the project. You mean LedgerSMB would prefer it if I set up this part as a service? I guess I can enter an AP for that, just as easily as I do now. > However, if this is something like a binder used for a report, you > probably should be tracking it as petty office supplies instead of > parts. The simplest way to do this is to use the AP Transaction > screen and enter directly as an expense and then provide adjustments > at the end of accounting periods if this is significant. Ah! But my dual Scottish and Lancastrian heritage requires me to bill the customer for said petty item (which might equally be an obscure BNC network cable of a type which I'm never going to see again) so my concern is having some part number for a miscellaneous "part" which I can enter on my invoice to the customer. Stroller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list Ledger-smb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
