My interpretation was that the "Replacement Cost" is what the patron gets charged, and that is free to be punitively large (like the retail price of the book, plus a handling fee) or forgivingly small (e.g. a low flat fee for children's books that the library may not intend to replace anyway), relative to the actual cost. Of course I have no idea whether I have achieved enlightenment on this issue or just made up a nice story about it. --joe On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@liblime.com> wrote:
RE: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2109
I am wondering what the point of the Actual Cost field is? I had this discussion with Josh:
Josh - "Well, based on a test I just did, it doesn't ignore actual cost, but uses it as the actual cost of a single item when receiving the shipment (not the Total, but the per item cost). Does that make sense?"
Nicole - "Okay - I see what you mean - but what does Actual Cost actually mean? The cost it would have been if I didn't get a discount? The cost I actually paid (cause if that's it then the budgeting is wrong)? I see that it's there in the record after I receive an order ... just not sure why I need it at all when I have a replacement cost and a budgeted cost."
Since we can't seem to figure this out among ourselves, I wanted to ask the community. Does anyone know what the Actual Cost field is supposed to be used for? I've had librarians ask me this and I haven't been able to update the documentation to explain it because I'm confused :)
Any help you can provide would be appreciated. --- Nicole C. Engard <http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel>
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