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

[Nicole Engard]

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Nicole C. Engard
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Nicole Engard
<nicole.engard at liblime.com> wrote:
> Okay I did a test.
>
> Josh,
>
> The actual cost does get subtracted from the budget, but my problem is
> that the invoice shows the budgeted amount.  If I'm printing receipts
> for my record they're showing the wrong amount.  I have attached
> images in the order they show up during the process.
>
>
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> Nicole C. Engard
> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
> nce at liblime.com
> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>
> http://liblime.com
> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
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>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
>> 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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