Our company deals in small items that are sold in vast quantities. The unit pricing on these items have at least four decimals places and when dealing with quantities anywhere from 10,000 to beyond 5...
The Photocopier industry commonly has unit pricing below one cent for copy cost. The industry standard is now below one cent and customer s need to see they were charged x number of pages at their quoted unit price. Printing below 2 decimal places was possible before so this is not a technical limitation or impossibility. We need both and the ability to either switch it off and on, or more easily for MYOB is add an extra field and users need to create a second customise invoice form.
Secondly we also track how many copies we 'sold', so fudging the QTY and unit price (by selling a differnt qty at different price) is not possible either as it disrupts our monitoring of sales volume. Furthermore, having a staff member use a calculator to work out the QTY x Unit cost is not an acceptable solution for an accounting package.
I reccomend MYOB solve this issue quickly and create an additional data field for use on printed forms i.e. IncpriceEXT, where EXT signifies a prined column with extended decimal places. This would solve the issue because users could customer their forms with either the standard two decimal places with rounding (= IncPrice) or the non-standard four decimal places (=IncPriceEXT)?
Isn't this a simple solution?