Recording Customer Samples and Gifts via Inventory Count and Assigning Expense to ‘Samples and Gifts’ Account

To record product samples or gifts for customers, you can follow these steps:

1. Create an inventory adjustment (shortage):

   • You can add an inventory adjustment (shortage) for the number of samples distributed as gifts to customers.

2. Load the expense account:

   • After recording the shortage in inventory, you must load the expense to the “Samples and Gifts” account.
   • You must add this account in the Chart of Accounts if it doesn’t already exist.

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