Considerations for Blend Accounting and Recosting

As you work with your blend lots, you might periodically run the Blend Cost Accounting Journal Entries program to create and update blend transaction records in the Blend Transactions table (F31B66). If you set up and use operational accounting, the transaction records capture information about the costs of your operations.

If the cost of your grapes changes, you can run the Blend Cost Accounting Journal Entries program to capture the variances in the harvest cost. For example, you might run the program every time you move content, or volume, from tank to tank. If you repriced receipts and recosted the grapes between movements, the Blend Cost Accounting Journal Entries program identifies the variance between the costs and uses AAI 3158 to identify the variance account to use for the change in the harvest cost-component. Note that the Blend Cost Accounting Journal Entries program updates records for closed operations only.

When you run the Blend Cost Accounting Journal Entries program, accounting records completed prior to recosting are not changed; no adjustments or revisions are made. However, subsequent runs of the Blend Cost Accounting Journal Entries program over the unaccounted operations will write records for the cost change as a variance. The variance is the difference between the Before lot cost and After lot cost for the harvest cost-component.