From what I can tell, creating an inventory item that has a suitable description for both sales and purchases is not achievable.
If there was a tick box under the item details tab for:
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This would be actually user friendly. The way t is at the moment is very poor.
MYOB is certainly loosing the game here, have a look at QBO. is far more user friendly. I over with this system in 2018. They hve just put the price up, but not solving stupid things that cost us $$$ every day.