Updating Standard Cost

Hi Everyone,
Is there anyway or any reason that the standard cost defined in the Item Master would be updated by the system? I have a customer who claims that the standard cost for one of their items has somehow been changed and they believe the system somehow made this change. The item is set up only as a Purchased Item.
I have gone into the Change Log for the item and printed off the Differences window for him because it appears that he changed it (he had changed the valuation method from Standard to FIFO and back to Standard). He claims that he did not enter the standard cost, however. I have tried to duplicate the changes he made in a Test Database to see if there is anyway to get the system to generate a change in the standard cost, and I haven't been able to do so.
It would be nice if I could send him copies of the Item Master Data - History Instances screens, but unfortunately the history screens show all of the valuation methods as Moving Average even though the Differences screen shows the valuation method going from Moving Average to Standard to FIFO and back to Standard.
Can anybody please either confirm my thoughts on the standard cost or explain how the system is changing the item cost and what method it is using to calculate the new cost?
I appreciate your help in advance.
Thank you,
Amanda

Hi Amanda,
A few points:
- The system does not change this price on it's own.
- Even if this was a Moving Average item it would not be updated by the system as this is not an Inventory item. FIFO and Moving Average are calculated prices, since no calculation is done it is an definition without meaning.
- For non inventory Items (like the item you are describing) no item cost is ever calculated.
- The price (when we are talking about a non inventory item) can be changed at any time.
- The only method that makes sense for a non stock item is standard.
- The standard price for these items to my knowledge would only be used as a cost price when this item is component in production bill of material and as a base price in gross profit calculation (this only works in 2007). (there might be other usage for it, but I wouldn't know of them)
I hope this information helps.
Jesper

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