Reporting Explained: Summary By Period
The Inventory Summary by Period report provides an overview of inventory activity for a selected date and time range. It shows the starting inventory cost, all inventory movements during the period, and the ending inventory cost.
Reports > Standard Reports > Inventory > Summary by Period
The report calculates inventory activity using the on-hand quantity and calculated cost at the start of the selected date/time range. It then summarizes all activity that occurs between the start date/time and end date/time.
You can run the report:
The report includes cost impacts from the following inventory activities:
Steps
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Go to Reports > Standard Reports.
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Select Inventory.
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Click Summary by Period.
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Apply the required filters.
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Run the report.
Filters
Required
Optional
By default, the report includes all stores, levels, and vendors.
Optional settings include:

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Column
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Description
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Calculation
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Starting Cost
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Inventory cost at the beginning of the selected date
range.
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Starting quantity × calculated cost at the start of the
range
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Received Cost
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Cost of items received during the period.
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Received quantity × vendor invoice or receipt price (+
invoice expenses when applicable)
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Transfer Accepted Cost
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Cost of inventory accepted from another store.
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Accepted transfer quantity × issuing store calculated cost
at time of issuance
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Transfer Issued Cost
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Cost of inventory transferred out to another store.
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Issued transfer quantity × issuing store calculated cost
at time of acceptance
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Sales Cost
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Cost of items sold during the period.
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Sales quantity × calculated cost at the time of the
transaction
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Returns Cost
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Cost of items returned during the period.
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Return quantity × calculated cost at the time of the
return transaction
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Manual Adjustment Cost
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Cost impact of manual inventory adjustments.
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Adjustment quantity × applied cost (positive adjustments)
or calculated cost at time of adjustment (negative adjustments)
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Return to Vendor Cost
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Cost of items returned to a vendor.
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Return-to-vendor quantity × vendor price on the document
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Physical Inventory Variance Cost
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Cost impact of differences found during a physical
inventory count.
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Variance quantity × calculated cost as of the physical
inventory effective date and time
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Ending Cost
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Inventory cost at the end of the selected date range.
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Ending quantity × calculated cost at the end of the range
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