Last week we began this portion of our Inventory series by looking at proper categorization and accounting for Inventory Items, Inventory Assemblies and Service Items. We examined the role of the various Inventory Asset Accounts like Raw Materials, WIP and Finished Goods, along with the related Income and Cost-of-Goods-Sold accounts. We learned that setting-up items properly and mapping them to the proper chart-of-accounts is essential for the long-term financial reporting required by inventory-centric businesses.
In today’s installment we want to examine some of the other Item types and look at some of the other mapping and configuration details associated with the use of QuickBooks for inventory management.