Record O9 decision: expense materials at purchase (periodic inventory)
Owner decision: this is a service business that uses materials to deliver a service rather than selling inventory, so powder/consumables are expensed at purchase (bill to a COGS/expense account) and inventory is not capitalized on the Balance Sheet. No code change required — the Balance Sheet already behaves this way, and the perpetual consumption-COGS path (O6) is opt-in via item account mappings (set only via CSV import) and stays dormant under this policy. Documents the double-count footgun (do not both expense at purchase and map item COGS/Inventory accounts) and locks the periodic choice into the ledger-refactor plan's Phase 5. All accounting audit findings O1-O9 now resolved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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against the old numbers using the snapshot harness below.
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- **Phase 4** — post conversion-balance JEs at the cutover date; delete the dead re-derivation code
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(~1,000+ lines).
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- **Phase 5** — decide **O9** (perpetual vs periodic inventory) and implement it as JE postings. Perpetual
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falls out naturally: purchases DR Inventory, consumption DR COGS / CR Inventory (O6 already posts the
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consumption half). This makes the Balance Sheet inventory line consistent with the Trial Balance / P&L.
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- **Phase 5** — **O9 is already decided: expense at purchase (periodic).** Materials are used to deliver a
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service, not sold, so they are expensed when purchased (bill → COGS/expense account); inventory is **not**
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capitalized on the Balance Sheet. In the refactor, post material purchases as `DR COGS / CR AP` (expense
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immediately) and do **not** emit a separate consumption JE. The opt-in perpetual path (item
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`CogsAccountId` + `InventoryAccountId`) stays unused under this policy — keep those mappings empty to avoid
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double-counting. No perpetual inventory asset/relief postings.
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## Prerequisites before starting
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