Materials pricing

[John Ralls]

On Jul 18, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:34:46 +1000 Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Has anyone devised a method for keeping material prices and being able
>> to enter them into invoices without a look-up table?
> 
> I would guess that would be part of the (non-existent [yet!]) inventory
> management section.  :-)

If you want an ERP program, get one. I think I've seen a couple on sourceforge. Gnucash isn't likely to turn into one anytime soon.

>From an accounting standpoint, materials are commodities. If you use the Lots system, you're stuck with FIFO, but if you do it by hand you can do whatever you want. (Or someone could contribute some new policies... take a look at src/engine/policy.[ch].)

Regards,
John Ralls