• Contractor Inventory Materials and Labour

    Hi All, We're a small contracting company, and we just closed our first year. Last year we didn't link our sales invoices to inventory accounts, rather manually adjusted which wasn't a big deal because we have fewer, larger invoices given our industry…
  • Unable to fix negative COGS due to adjustments in inventory module ?

    We are a factory using Sage 50 Quantum. We use average cost and quantities were not negative. I managed to set the correct quantities and values of the inventory by using the inventory module, by first resetting the value to 0 in the module and then adding…
  • Total newb needs help with setting up inventory and accounts

    Hi, I'm trying to setup Sage 50 and I'm becoming more and more confused! I do use Sage at my day job for entering payables and receivables, so I'm familiar with a lot of the program, but not familiar how to set it up to use for my side business making…
  • Report to show sales vs cogs by department by invoice

    Company has four departments, each representing a physical store front. Inventory is setup to the main revenue, cogs, asset and accounts. The department can only be determined at the time of sale. So the invoice is generated, revenue department is chosen…
  • How to I enter our opening inventory of finished goods and raw materials so COGS will calculate?

    We are a small manufacturer. We've just finished creating all of our inventory items, including raw materials and finished goods. For finished goods, we used the "build" tab to create our BOMs, which identify the quantities of raw materials required for…
  • Inventory/COGS

    Hi, Has anyone encountered an issue with COGS not showing for on reports for Sales details for some of the inventory items? I have 8 inventory items that are not showing the COGS. And what's really odd is that it only started in the May reports and…
  • Inventory and Services 101 on Sage 50 Canadian Edition

    Some users might have a hard time getting started with Inventory and Services module in Sage 50. Today’s blog will review basic some information about that module. Inventory and services module is used more commonly to keep track of physical items…
  • Recording Opening Inventory

    In a recent post to Sylvie Su I found the following link very helpful. http://www.accounting-basics-for-students.com/periodic-inventory.html But when a new business is started, using periodic inventory, in which account is the opening inventory posted…