Hello, Our Accounting team would like to realize the full cost of certain physical items purchased for marketing purposes at receipt, instead of at time of use, but our Ops team still needs to track how many we actually have. Basically expense the purchase cost, but then still have a $0 inventory item. I have only done this in other systems - is the best way in NS simply JE the value after receipt of a standard inventory item, or is there a cleaner / more elegant way I'm missing? Thanks!

Receive them to $0 on the item receipt, bill them to $0 on the vendor bill and add the correct expense account on the vendor bill. Usually you get the vendor bill very close to the item receipt unless you do contract buying or similiar. You then have it in stock but with the cost already accounted for.

@Jesper M thanks - Bill them to $0 on the vendor bill, then add the full cost under expenses on the bill, while the item stays $0?

Yes!