# Inventory Cost **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 16, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859 "2021-03-16T06:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tubatse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tubatse](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tubatse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/1 "2021-03-16T06:00:50Z")
As from yesterday the program decided to take some of our invoices and credit notes and list them under “inventory cost”. Why would this happen? ![image|690x387image|690x387](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/8/e/8ed951f1f024fb53875f3c8a1e3c916ecf42e440.png) ---
**Author:** ![Joe91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/joe91/32/35781_2.png) [@Joe91](https://forum.manager.io/u/Joe91)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/2 "2021-03-16T06:59:33Z")
Please show edit screen for one of the invoices and credit notes involved? ---
**Author:** ![Tubatse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tubatse](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tubatse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/3 "2021-03-16T07:26:01Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/2/9/297a4713851ab8f65ae23a68ded536af5d67f519.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/9/0/909306a0dbf71caf275ff00bb02b939c6c8edaa9.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/b/6/b60b0416a5efe82b479704ff2fd86dcfad80a896.png) You will also see that it is fairly “new” invoices as well as “old” ones Regards. ---
**Author:** ![Joe91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/joe91/32/35781_2.png) [@Joe91](https://forum.manager.io/u/Joe91)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/4 "2021-03-16T08:45:52Z")
What account does your inventory sales cost normally go to? What have you setup in your inventory items? ---
**Author:** ![Tut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/tut/32/3286_2.png) [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/5 "2021-03-16T13:55:02Z")
> [@Tubatse](#): > > the program decided to take some of our invoices and credit notes and list them under “inventory cost”. > Why would this happen? Every inventory item you have ever sold had its cost transferred from the _Inventory on hand_ asset account (or some other control account you set up for this purpose) to the _Inventory - cost_ expense account when it was sold via a sales invoice or receipt. This is not something the program recently “decided.” This is the cost of goods sold. The question is not why does this happen, but where were the costs of goods sold going previously? That choice is controlled by you inventory item definitions, specifically by whether you choose to assign the costs to a `Custom expense account`. The issue looks to be related to your inventory item, _Maxi Bricks_. So look there. ---
**Author:** ![Tubatse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tubatse](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tubatse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/6 "2021-03-17T10:18:46Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/5/9/597be0692d051b58972254d321dbda7e08050344.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/4/4/44cfa1b98c5b14a8dfdd2121701a5c1adf4adf6e.png) The print screens that I have uploaded is of my back up from 8/3/21. I do a back up every day. You will note that on the back up company, which I created to check my problem, there are no inventory costs. The cost of the goods sold (which is being manufactured by ourselves) is also going to different accounts as set up by myself, for example “Cement”. Never ever did my system post it like this, and I can promise you one thing, I did not work on control accounts in the last month. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/4/a/4ad1544c17f1c3383fae38555fa8d15e7fdc6bab.png) , this print screen is a setup of my inventory item. So, really I am not sure where this problem started. ---
**Author:** ![Tut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/tut/32/3286_2.png) [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/7 "2021-03-17T12:39:18Z")
> [@Tubatse](#): > > on the back up company, which I created to check my problem, there are no inventory costs. Yes, there are. They are in the accounts named _Cement_ and _Sand_, in the group named _Cost of sales_. > [@Tubatse](#): > > this print screen is a setup of my inventory item. That screen shot, for _Maxi Bricks_, shows no custom expense account for the item. Therefore, its cost will default to _Inventory - cost_. And that is exactly what you have shown. If you edit that inventory item and assign it a custom expense account, such as _Cement_, your issue should ge resolved. I cannot guess how your definition of the inventory item, _Maxi Bricks_, changed. But, if its cost of sales did not show in _Inventory - cost_ before but now does, it did change. ---
**Author:** ![Tubatse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tubatse](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tubatse)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/8 "2021-04-09T06:38:18Z")
Morning, Wil lyou ever introduce a function where I can export report etc to ms exel? ---
**Author:** ![Tut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/tut/32/3286_2.png) [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/9 "2021-04-09T12:57:58Z")
@Tubatse, please do not divert topics with unrelated questions. Your latest was not about inventory cost. And the feature has been available for years. ---
**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/inventory-cost/33859/10 "2026-07-05T20:21:40Z")
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