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

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
> * Nicole Engard (nicole.engard at liblime.com) wrote:
>> That makes sense - but it's the 'Replacement Cost' that gets
>> subtracted from the budget ... shouldn't it then be the 'Actual Cost'
>> that gets subtracted from the budget?
>>
> Hi Nicole
>
> Yes it should, actual cost is what the library actually paid.
> When they order an estimated/budgeted cost is put in, which is used when working out how much of a budget has been committed to being spent.
> The actual cost is what the invoice says and what they actually paid when the item arrives.
> Often these are different.
> The actual cost should be used when working out what has been spent.
Can anyone verify that it isn't? My test showd that the budgeted cost is used
if no value is in Actual Cost, but that Actual Cost is used otherwise.
Can someone
else verify that this works as expected?

Cheers,

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