Perhaps you noticed ever Navision that there are areas of expected cost and actual cost fields. What is meant by expected cost and what is meant by real cost?
The expected cost of a product movement forecast cost is going to have this motion before the same has been baggage.
Imagine a movement of product caused by the registration of a purchase slip.
material has come to the store, with a corresponding delivery note and we proceeded to record the entry into Navision. This has generated a movement of Purchase type product. If after registration we will see the movement, we see that we have cost in the "Cost Amount (Expected)" and the "cost amount (real) is 0.
This is because at this time we do not have the invoice, which is who will give us the final cost.
The expected cost of movement was calculated based on the reported purchase price in the purchase order.
The moment we register the invoice, if we turn our attention to the movement of product, now we see that 0 as "Cost Amount (Expected)" and the appropriate value (according to the reported price on the invoice) as "cost amount (Real)."
Look further if billing is part of the purchase order, decreases the value of the expected cost * (the share of the amount already invoiced) and increases the value of the actual cost (the corresponding to the amount already invoiced).
There are movements that will not have a bill associated, as inventory adjustments or transfers between warehouses. What happens to these movements? Do stay with expected cost and will not ever have real cost? No no, in these cases, although there is no invoice, Navision and treats them as billed from the start. So it's just the opposite, these movements will always have real cost and never expected cost.
* This is from Microsoft Business Solutions 4.0. In previous versions, the value of the expected cost dismunuía not, always seemed original expected cost, although the movement was already fully charged.
Cristina Nicolàs
Dynamica
