Return orders for closed Item Ledger Entries

merana

If I post Purchase Return Order with "Appl.-to Item Entry" omitted (because original positive entry is closed) I will get wrong cost amount of returned items (because decrease is then applied to some other positive item ledger entries with cost usually different from original)
(no matter is it FIFO or Average).

Is it possible to reopen IL entry ("reapply" decreases to some other increases so that original entry quantity can be released)?
Is there some other way to solve this problem?

ara3n

you can turn on exact costing. There is a field in purchases and payables called Exact costing reversing. This won't allow a user to post with "appl. to item entry" being zero.

You cannot reopen and reaply an item ledger entry. But what you can do is fix the cost. Do a item reevaluation journal.