Does inventory leak cents when freight and write-downs join in?

A seeded property test on ai-bookkeeper's stock ledger: 300 random books, two costing methods, freight and write-downs. Nothing leaked.

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ai-bookkeeperinventorytesting

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Landed freight and lower-of-cost write-downs both rewrite the cost of stock that is already on the shelf, which is where rounding errors like to hide. So we generated 300 random books (made-up data) under FIFO and moving average, mixed buys, sales, write-offs, returns, freight spread by value or quantity, and write-downs, then checked that money bought plus freight paid equals value on hand plus cost of goods sold plus returns, to the cent, in every book.

It did, and no stock or cost went negative, an empty shelf held no cost, and the journal balanced. No code changed. The test is ventures/ai-bookkeeper/inventory-landed-property.test.mjs; a pass is a result worth having, but it covers made-up books, not a real shop's.

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