Can I Change the Default G/L Account for Inventory Adjustments?

When you bring up the Inventory Adjustment Task screen you will see a spot where you specify the G/L account for the creditadjustment to be booked to. Here you would specify the Advertising account that you want to use instead of the COGS account.

Yes, that is what I've been doing. The default is set to the particular piece of inventory's COGS account. I'd like to be able to have it preset to advertising and not have to alter it every time I do an inventory adjustment.

You don't want to change the COGS account used for normal sales. That is set up in the defaults to point to the COGS account by design. Normal Inventory adjustments are intended to post to COGS. What you are doing is not the normal way of dealing with inventory adjustments.

Yes, I know that.

I'm giving away inventory for the purposes of advertising. There is no sale involved, hence no "cost of goods SOLD". I think my method more accurately reflects the transaction than the default set-up. I'll just have to continue to make manual adjustments every time I do an inventory adjustment.

Are you selling ANY inventory? If you are only giving the items away then you could change the account to advertising. But if you are selling any of the items then the adjustments made when a sale is recorded needs to be pointed to the COGS account.

An alternative would be put items into inventory that are only for purposes of giving away. For these you don't need the COGS account and in the Items setup screen change the COGS account to your advertising account.

Sixteen years and counting.

Yes, I know.

Yep. I was hoping there was a way to alter the expense account for the inventory adjustment screen only and not from the inventory maintenance screen.

Not that I can see. I guess you are stuck doing it manually.