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Cost management (video) lets you work with the valuation and accounting of raw materials, semi-finished goods, finished goods, and work-in-progress assets. It is the process of defining, managing, and reporting Inventory accounting and Manufacturing accounting.

You can define cost policies in the following areas:

• Predetermined cost
• Inventory accounting
• Manufacturing accounting
• Indirect cost accounting
• Ledger integration

For example, you can define which inventory valuation methods, such as FIFO, Weighted average, Standard cost, or Moving average that you want to apply to products in the Item model group in Inventory accounting.

You can access Inventory accounting and Manufacturing accounting from the Cost administration and Cost analysis workspaces. These workspaces provide a comprehensive overview of the current status, key performance indicators (KPIs), and detection of deviation.

Tip

Are you new to inventory costing? Check out the following resources:

• Glossary of terms in Dynamics 365 business processes
• Define service costing overview and relation to other business processes
• Business process for product costing and how it relates to other processes with Dynamics 365

Manufacturing accounting lets you handle Job order costing in production orders and batch orders, as well as Backflush costing in lean manufacturing.

The Cost management Power BI content provides managerial insight into inventory and work-in-progress (WIP) inventory, and how cost flows through them by category over time. The information can also be used as a detailed supplement to the financial statement.

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White paper

BOM calculation by using a costing sheet describes how to set up a costing sheet that includes material and manufacturing, and how the setup affects the BOM calculation results. To better explain the articles, it provides concrete scenarios and data that demonstrates the effect of the various settings and configurations.

Blogs

You can find opinions, news, and other information about Cost management on the Dynamics AX Manufacturing R&D Team blog and Supply Chain Management in Dynamics AX R&D Team blog. Although some of these posts were written for the previous version of Cost management, the same concepts still apply, and the procedures are also similar in the current version.