[Koha-devel] Question RE: Purpose of 'Actual Cost' field in Acquisitions

[Joe Atzberger]

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 at 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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