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The landed costing screen is used to enter all the costs that are related to items that are arriving from overseas that you are allowed to add to the value of the item.  There are two stages used because actual costs are often not known until after the products have been receipted into store.  Refer to the flow diagram for more details.

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Once actual costs for shipping, customs, inspections etc have arrived it is time to enter the actuals.

1. From the Purchase Order for Perishable Goods from PO to Goods Receipt - open the estimate using the button
2. Navigate to the "Actuals" sub tab
3. Select a cost esimtate to Link to actual payments made
   1. Choose the supplier that you paid (or you have an invoice for)
   2. Choose from a list of invoices / payments from that supplier
   3. Determine the amount to use for this landed cost calculation (you can change this later)
4. Add additional payments if you require more that you expected in the estimate
5. Action Button: Calculate Actual Average costs
   1. Review calculations and adjust manual allocations in the grid
6. Use status when ready to apply
   1. Application will then compare the estimated landed costs with the actual landed costs
      1. Where changes are to be made
         1. The average cost of the article will be adjusted to the new average cost
         2. Journals will be written including clearing out any balance in the clearing account
7. The status will then move to Actual used. 

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