Bob Blick wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:34 -0300, "Gerhard Fiedler" wrote: >> William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >>=20 >>> "you can't put engineering stock into the Production part chain." >>=20 >> I think this has at least also something to do with the way >> USA-style sales tax works (as opposed to Europe-style VAT). When you >> buy a part in the USA, you buy it as engineering part or as a >> production part, and I don't think USA accounting systems have a way >> to pass parts between the two. (This distinction doesn't exist with >> Europe-style VAT.) >=20 > No, companies do whatever they want with parts. Bill is talking about > Cisco, they are huge, and stuffy, and have procedures for everything. > If it was a small company they'd do whatever they pleased,=20 YMMV. You may assume because of my name that I don't know what I'm talking about, but you may be wrong. I've worked in small companies in the USA where they made a big deal about keeping different stock for engineering and production because of accounting issues, and really didn't like to mix the two or move between the two. That was completely different from my experience with companies in Germany, and a strange novelty. > If I wanted to use engineering parts in a production piece, I could do > it and either ignore the accounting or make a note of it. It's > insignificant and inconsequential. If it saves me a few thousand > dollars, I'd do it.=20 I didn't mean to talk about you specifically. Pardon me if it came over that way. Gerhard --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .