On 10/12/11 00:16 +0100, Cédric Krier wrote:
> On 09/12/11 13:25 -0800, Graeme Gellatly wrote:
> > Anyway 
> > the trick for landed cost is that you are going to get one invoice from a 
> > shipping company which could be for multiple purchases especially if using 
> > a freight consolidator, so that cost needs to be spread across multiple 
> > purchases. Because there are incoming invoices that need to have their 
> > values reallocated from an expense account to a stock valuation account, 
> > but at the time of receiving the goods you may not know what those costs 
> > are yet it is a tricky issue.
> 
> This case is more unusual. It is when you don't know the shipment cost
> when you receive the goods. But such situation can not be generalised
> because there is a lot of corner cases. Like what if your cost price of
> product is set to FIFO and you did not yet receive the invoice for the
> shipment before you sale the product, etc. Such cases could be managed
> using a re-computation of all the cost price history.

Apparently, the cost is considered as an expense if the goods were
already sold.

> But any way, the cost price computation is always approximation so there
> is many way to try to approcimate it.
> So I don't want to manage such cases by default in Tryton.


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