On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:57:31 PM UTC+1, Cédric Krier wrote: > > On 08/02/12 12:29 -0800, Okko Huisman wrote: > > For me the costprice is a field that is directly linked to the value of > > your goods in the warehouse.The costprice is used to make account moves > for > > Stock and COGS for stock moves related to the warehouse. > > > > In case of drop shipment the warehouse is not involved and there is a > > direct link between the sales and purchase. The most accurate COGS is > the > > value of the purchase. > > > > Answers: > > - Is such moves must change the average cost price or not? > > No > > - Is such moves must behave like if the cost price was fix? > > No, I think we should use the price from purchase as the costprice for > such > > moves. > > This is perhaps the common practice but for me this is not logical. > Because you change the method of the valuation of the goods.
The 'method of valuation' is about the valuation of your stock. Drop shipment is not about stock. > With your way, we are in a LIFO method just for this drop shipment and > for all others, it is fixed or average or FIFO. It is like if the > dropped product was not the same product as the one in the stock. It is the same product but with a different way of doing account moves as the shipment method is different. > For me the cost price is linked to the warehouse in the way that it is > the approximate unit price to valuate the stock. Agree. > So for me, if the product land or not in the warehouse doesn't change > anything, you have a new information about the cost of the product, you > must update it using the choosen method. > I do not agree as costprice in product is really connected to your stock. > What I often hear is that you can choose the cost method you want but > never change it during the exercice. I fully agree but again cost method is linked to stock valuation. -- [email protected] mailing list
