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Item · Costing

The cost method, the elements that make up the standard, and where it posts. The elements must add up to the standard — the platform refuses a row where they do not.

Where to find it

Module: Supply Chain
Group: More
Section: Reachable by link
Screen: Item · Costing

Address in the console: /scm/item-costing

List · 10 columns · 24 fields on its form · 3 of them required

This screen carries no tile on the module page. It is reached from the record it belongs to, from a saved view, or by its address.

What the list shows

These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.

Column	Kind	Field name
Item	Code	`item_no`
Name	Text	`item_name`
Method	Status	`cost_method`
Material	Amount	`material_cost`
Labor	Amount	`labor_cost`
Overhead	Amount	`overhead_cost`
Standard	Amount	`standard_cost`
Inventory a/c	Code	`inventory_account_no`
In force from	Date	`effective_from`
Until	Date	`effective_to`

The form

What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.

Field	Type	Choices	Notes
Item required	Choice	Looked up from existing records
Applies in	Choice	Looked up from existing records	Leave empty and it applies company-wide. Choose a business unit and it overrides the company-wide row there — which is how one item behaves differently in two plants.
Cost method required	Choice	standard, average, fifo, lifo, specific, actual
Currency	Text
Material	Number
Labor	Number
Overhead	Number
Subcontract	Number
Freight	Number
Standard cost required	Number		Must equal the elements above when any of them are given.
Inventory account	Text
Cost of sales account	Text
Variance account	Text
Revenue account	Text
Cost center	Choice	Looked up from existing records
Carried as an inventory asset	Yes or no
Capitalizable	Yes or no
Useful life (months)	Number
Tax code	Text
Tax exempt	Yes or no
Transfer price	Number
Transfer price basis	Choice	cost, cost_plus, market, negotiated
In force from	Date		The date this version of the row takes effect. Leave it as today unless you are dating a change ahead.
Until	Date		Leave empty for open-ended. Setting it ends this version rather than deleting it.

The rules that apply here

Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:

Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.

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