Changing Your Costing Method

If you have inventory and you want change your costing method, you cannot automatically apply LIFO or FIFO costing to your current inventory.

To change your costing method:

  1. Manually close each existing inventory item by adjusting its inventory to zero.

  2. Inactivate the item record.

  3. Recreate the item record with the appropriate opening balance.

    All new inventory items you create automatically use your new costing method.

Related Topics

Inventory Reporting After Changing the Costing Method
Setting a Default Inventory Costing Method
Costing Methods

General Notices