Adjust Cost - Item Entries is the Business Central batch job that carries later cost changes through to related item entries so inventory value is correct.
Adjust Cost - Item Entries is a batch job that recalculates the cost of posted item entries and forwards cost information to the entries that depend on it. It exists because costs arrive after quantities: an invoice, an item charge or a revaluation can change the value of a receipt that has already been consumed or sold. When it runs, it updates the actual cost on value entries and, if cost posting to the general ledger is automatic, posts the resulting corrections.
Search for Adjust Cost - Item Entries with Alt+Q to run it manually, where you can restrict it to an item number or an item category filter. How often it runs on its own is controlled by the automatic cost adjustment field on the Inventory Setup page, together with the automatic cost posting and expected cost posting settings on the same page.
Chairs of item 1928-S are received on 03.03.2026 at an estimated CHF 120, and 5 pieces are sold on 12.03.2026, so cost of goods sold is booked at CHF 600. The vendor invoice posted on 20.03.2026 is CHF 125 per piece. Until the cost adjustment runs, the sale still carries CHF 600. After the run, the sale is adjusted to CHF 625, a value entry marked as an adjustment appears, and the CHF 25 difference reaches the general ledger if automatic cost posting is switched on.
The most common situation is a company that never runs the job, or runs it only at year end: inventory valuation and cost of goods sold stay wrong for months and the closing turns into a project. The second is running it on a large database in the middle of the working day, where it competes with users over the same entries. It also cannot fix everything: if the period is closed by an inventory period, or if items are blocked, adjustments cannot post and the run reports errors that are easy to ignore.
The normal setup is a job queue entry that runs the batch job outside working hours, typically nightly, with the report parameters saved so nobody has to retype a filter. Run it before you produce an inventory valuation or a cost of goods sold figure, not after, and keep it in the same rhythm as your period close so the numbers do not move between the report and the closing.
Daily is a reasonable rule for most companies, scheduled at night with a job queue entry, and always before an inventory valuation or a period close.
Because actual costs replaced estimates. Invoices, item charges and revaluations posted after a receipt only reach the related shipments and consumption when the batch job runs.
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