I sold some equipment (ie invoiced the client) before I actually bought the equipment (ie created the purchase invoice after sales invoice date). I have this issue where I have a transaction called cost adjustment to recover from negative inventory - its not allocating the amount to the sales invoi…

Manager processes/records transactions in date sequence and can’t retrospectively update prior entries. Imagine that your sales invoice had been in the last accounting year, you wouldn’t want a current year transaction amending prior year balances after the year had been closed. You could take up …

[image] Brucanna: Manager processes/records transactions in date sequence and can’t retrospectively update prior entries.Imagine that your sales invoice had been in the last accounting year, you wouldn’t want a current year transaction amending prior year balances after the year had been closed. …

I guess the fundamental accounting logic is that you can only sell what you have but increasingly with online businesses who only purchase stock (or arrange direct delivery) after they receive a sales order - so that logic is challenged You wrote "All I want is . . inventory transactions to be li…

See previous topic - [image] What is "Cost adjustment to recover from negative inventory"? I noticed that there is a “Cost adjustment to recover from negative inventory” entry in my inventory item transactions’ history that I’m not quite sure of. Can somebody point to me…

@itmoto Thanks for linking me to this. This explains whats going. As Lubos said, the problem with invoicing the client before buying the goods means that Manager cannot determine what the cost of sales is so thats why there is an adjustment. Not sure why the adjustment cannot be linked to the ori…

@Brucanna there is a link of a sorts, in that Manager shows an inventory transaction view. but there is no actual link to the actual invoice per se as the invoice doesn’t care when the products were bought and what they cost. Lubos apparently implemented this cost adjustment to fix the issue of Ma…

That’s the attitude!. By shifting/altering the purchase invoice date only, creates the minimalist impact and gets the stock in ahead of the sale. Pushing the sale invoice date back can have side effects, especially with cash rather then credit sales. Internet sales (as an example) generally include…

HI @lubos - are the changelogs listed here for fixing this issue in this topic 03 Mar 2016 Fixed inventory issue where debiting “Inventory - sales” income didn’t put inventory cost back to inventory on hand if quantity on hand was zero 16.2.71 February 2016 29 Feb 2016 Improved negative inventor…

[image] dalacor: are the changelogs listed here for fixing this issue in this topic The latest version does handle negative inventory a bit differently. So you need to try the latest version to see what impact it has on this specific scenario. I wasn’t fixing this issue specifically but it mi…

Hi there, I’m new to manager and am currently inputting my purchase Invoices only and haven’t started to enter sales invoices. I see the “Cost adjustment to recover from negative inventory”. From reading the previous discussion I understand that this can be caused from selling an item from invent…

Inventory transactions issue

itmoto February 26, 2016, 11:11pm 5

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Inventory transactions issue

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