This crosses both Supply and Financials but thought I could start here. When we purchase a new piece of equipment, sometimes we get a trade-in credit for the equipment we already have. When documenting the Purchase Order for the purchase, we put a zero cost line to reference the trade in and put the amount in the description. Then for the line for the new equipment we put the net value (equipment cost less the trade in). Then when this gets to AP, we modify the distributions that were created so that the full cost of the item is reflected to our CIP account and the trade in value goes to cash clearing. This way when we capitalize the new equipment it is for the correct value and when we dispose of the old one it offsets the cash clearing with the proceed.
What we would like to do is have the trade-in as an actual po line for the negative value so that the po line for the new equipment can be the actual cost.
Has anyone else tried to do this?
