[GNC] quandary with proper entries for cost-of-goods-sold and inventory

[Stan Brown]

Welcome to GnuCash, Eric! I can't respond to your accounting question,
but here are some pointers for your mailing-list questions.


On 2023-06-17 11:50, Eric Hammond wrote:
> First, what is the proper way to reply / request to this email sequence?

You managed to do it right in the end. It looks like you found the
correct mailing list address, "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" in the
instructions that are automatically appended to every message the serer
sends out.

If your mail program offers "Reply List" to a particular message, that's
what you should use. Otherwise, you may need to copy/paste the
"gnucash-user at gnucash.org" address manually to your outgoing message's
To or Cc field.

One important point: If you receive messages in a  digest, you'll also
need to (a) edit the subject line, by copy/pasting the subject of the
individual message you're referring to, and (b) Delete all the text of
all the messages you're _not_ referring to, as well as any parts of the
remaining message that are not needed to give context to your answer.

> I follow the instructions at the end:
> 	"Please remember to CC this list on all your replies."
> 	"You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All."
> But only end up with "gnucash-user at gnucassh.org" and get mildly chastised for not replying properly.

What does "mildly chastised" mean? For future reference, always, always
include the _exact_ text of error messages when asking for help with a
problem. Reporting a problem is a lot like giving testimony in  court:
tell us what you did and exactly what you saw; don't interpret or give
opinions.

The rest of your message is an accounting question, not a GnuCash
question. I'm not an accountant, and even if I were you didn't tell us
which jurisdiction you're in, which can have a large impact on the
correct answer.

What would you have done in the old
pen-and-ink-in-tall-leather-bound-ledgers era? That is just what you
should do in GnuCash.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com