
You'll go to the same place to do the adjustment (Vendors > Inventory Activities > Adjust Quantity/Value on Hand). The second step is to create an adjustment that increases your finished product. After you have adjusted the quantities for ALL the components, make note of the amount at the bottom called "Total Value of Adjustment". On the inventory list, change the New Quantity (or Qty Difference) to reflect that the components are no longer available. You'll need to select an adjustment account, and I recommend that you create an expense account specifically for tracking these adjustments (called something like Pending Builds). To do this, go to the Vendors menu, select Inventory Activities, then Adjust Quantity/Value on Hand. The first step is to reduce the components that make up an assembly. There are a few steps, so this may not be for everyone. The way to do this is with an inventory adjustment, and a cost adjustment. To mimic this in QuickBooks, you need to make an adjustment to your QuickBooks inventory that will reduce the individual pieces, and increase the final product, but you must also make sure that your costs are correct so you don't show a loss (or a gain) in inventory value. In this case, the cost of one bike is the sum of the costs of all the pieces used. The value of the completed final product is the sum of the value of all the items used to make the final product. When you build an assembly item, you are removing the individual pieces from your available inventory and increasing the availability of the final product. A good example of this is a bike shop that sells individual parts (wheels, seats, chains, etc.) but also can use those parts to build a complete bike. Depending on the needs of your business, there might be a workaround that you can implement that will still let you use QuickBooks for Mac.Īssembly items are items that are made from other items. One big difference is the lack of assembly items in the Mac version. While the QuickBooks 2011 for Mac has a lot of the features of the Windows version, there are still some functionality missing. Mac computers are becoming more popular every day, and we at CIAS QuickBooks get a lot of customers who want to switch from QuickBooks for Windows to QuickBooks for Mac.
