Reporting Explained: Cost Reporting- COGS Detail

Reporting Explained: Cost Reporting- COGS Detail

Business Need: This report is helpful for F&B customers using COGS for tracking inventory. It allows clients to see a detailed breakdown of their COGS accounts in relation to sales, purchasing, physical inventories, and manual adjustments. 

How it works: COGS Detail reporting allows you to see the total cost for all COGS departments between a selected period. This information is pulled from all sections of Yellow Dog that effect your inventory. Each section is totaled and grouped based on how the inventory was entered into or adjusted within your inventory. For the most accurate data you will need to make sure all purchasing documents (within your selected date range) have been received, transferred, returned, etc. You will want to verify your sales are correct when compared to your point of sale records. Also, any physical inventories will need to be committed for adjustments to be displayed. If you notice variances in this report investigate these areas for needed corrections.

Generating the Report: To generate this report items must be mapped properly to the correct COGS accounts. Incorrect mapping will cause data to report inaccurately. For more information on setting up COGS please see What are COGS?

Go to the Reports section in the Yellow Dog 

  1. Select Standard Reports
  2. Open the folder titled F&B
  3. Open the folder titled Cost Reporting
  4. Select “COGS Detail”
  5. Optional Filters -These filters are optional and are unselected as a default.
  6. Select “Start Date”- This will be the start of your date range.
  7. Select “End Date”- This will be the end of your date range.
  8. Select Report Filters -These filters are mandatory and are selected as “All” as a default.
  9. Generate Report


Reading the Report 


1-2. Shows the filters used to produce the reports data, the example report is showing us activity for all COGS departments from 10/31/2018 thru 11/3/2018.

3. Change columns, sorting and grouping: This allows us to manipulate the view of the data within the report. 

4. CodeCOGS account

5. Manual Adjustments Cost: Total cost associated with manual adjustments.

6. Received Cost: Total cost associated with received inventory.

7. Returned to Vendor Cost: Total cost associated with inventory returned to vendor.

8. Transfers Accepted Cost: Total cost associated with accepted transfer inventory. 

9. Transfers Issued Cost: Total cost associated with currently issued transfer inventory.

10. Sales Cost: Total cost associated with sold inventory.

11. Returns Cost: Total cost associated with returned inventory.

12. Physical Inventory Cost: Total cost associated with physical inventories.

13. Column Totals

14. This row allows you to save, export, print and close the current report.




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