That makes sense - but it's the 'Replacement Cost' that gets subtracted from the budget ... shouldn't it then be the 'Actual Cost' that gets subtracted from the budget?
--- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Joe Atzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My interpretation was that the "Replacement Cost" is what the patron gets > charged, and that is free to be punitively large (like the retail price of > the book, plus a handling fee) or forgivingly small (e.g. a low flat fee for > children's books that the library may not intend to replace anyway), > relative to the actual cost. > > Of course I have no idea whether I have achieved enlightenment on this issue > or just made up a nice story about it. > --joe > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Nicole Engard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> RE: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2109 >> >> I am wondering what the point of the Actual Cost field is? I had this >> discussion with Josh: >> >> Josh - "Well, based on a test I just did, it doesn't ignore actual >> cost, but uses it as the actual cost of a single item when receiving >> the shipment (not the Total, but the per item cost). Does that make >> sense?" >> >> Nicole - "Okay - I see what you mean - but what does Actual Cost >> actually mean? The cost it would have been if I didn't get a discount? >> The cost I actually paid (cause if that's it then the budgeting is >> wrong)? I see that it's there in the record after I receive an order >> ... just not sure why I need it at all when I have a replacement cost >> and a budgeted cost." >> >> Since we can't seem to figure this out among ourselves, I wanted to >> ask the community. Does anyone know what the Actual Cost field is >> supposed to be used for? I've had librarians ask me this and I >> haven't been able to update the documentation to explain it because >> I'm confused :) >> >> Any help you can provide would be appreciated. >> --- >> Nicole C. Engard > > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
