[renewiltord]

Perhaps this is obvious to you, but I don't see what I'm gaining by doing this. My inventory management system will have different things unless I'm also recording these pizzas in there for the day. And it will show my inventory valuation as fluctuating when I do things like lunch or dinner for the team. It really seems useless to me when running the business.

[eviks]

That's fine, many accounting practices eschew precision for simplicity, you don't mark-to-market everything, depreciation is linear, etc, so if you don't see any value in this, but only troubles with integration with other systems etc, then it's useless to you. But then the article wasn't about running a real business