Product Costing

What is cost of goods sold (COGs)?
The following article addresses how cost of goods sold are handled in DBA.   The article also provides tips on how to achieve more realistic costing of your...
Fri, 3 Nov, 2017 at 10:13 AM
Isn’t actual costing more accurate and therefore superior to absorbed costing?
DBA is an absorbed costing system in which all manufacturing costs – material, labor, subcontract services, and overhead – are absorbed rather than actual c...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 8:58 AM
Can we continue using the sales order for costing and job planning?
The sales order is commonly used in non-WIP systems to collect income and associated costs, often with the aid of non-inventory parts, to simulate a profit ...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:00 AM
Are alternative costing methods available?
Any costing scheme other than absorption costing has no legitimacy within a WIP accounting system and has a destructive impact.  In order for DBA to work pro...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:01 AM
Can we continue using non-inventory parts for costing and expensing?
Non-inventory parts should never be used in a WIP accounting system for any purpose.  All physical items must be set up as stock items.   Non-inventory ...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:03 AM
Can we replicate our cost and profit reports in DBA?
It is not possible or desirable to replicate cost and profit reports from a previous system in DBA because absorption costing totally changes the inputs fro...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:04 AM
Does DBA provide for departmental accounting?
DBA does not provide departmental accounting because it is not relevant to a WIP accounting system.   Departmental accounting in non-WIP systems attempt...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:05 AM
Are period end inventory adjustments needed?
DBA maintains a perpetual real time inventory that does not require the period end quantity and cost adjustments that are typically made with non-WIP system...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:07 AM
Are payroll hours and costs to be linked or reconciled with job hours?
Payroll is an independent application that has no direct link or reconciliation requirement with job hours in DBA.  Job hours are entered in DBA and can be ...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:08 AM
Why can’t I wait for the supplier invoice to apply prices to POs after the fact?
All inventory transactions in DBA are processed in real time.  In the case of PO receipts, real time processing enables received items to be immediately iss...
Fri, 22 Sep, 2017 at 9:09 AM