Mail-Order Solid-State Reactor

[Janick Beauchamp]

For Janick, she must have realized that her old storage shed was inadequate for storing alchemical merchandise awaiting sale; however, suitable replacements are difficult to come by. Although she must have downloaded a rather integrated view of accounting from Griet, the hard part was determining its fair market value, since both taxation (even when one is not operating under the Talz tax regime) and external financial reporting depended on it, and it was trickier when noncash consideration is involved; then commercial substance, or lack thereof, was also a factor (cost was acceptable if there was no active market for a good, and used when there was no commercial substance even when there was an active market). She obtained unqualified audit opinions every year she operated the Circle, and she had to take over the Circle's accounting after Griet left to start her own full-service accounting firm, in which the Circle held a non-controlling interest. She thus started to fill out some mail-order form to someone she heard rumors about regarding something more adequate than a mundane storage shed for storing the goods in. A cortosis storage crate to be exact. If the seller wants something other than credits for the cortosis storage crate, it is going to cause an accounting nightmare to me, sufficient to go from an unqualified audit to a qualified one at year-end if I mishandle it, for the revenue part on the one hand, and the capital asset "purchase" on the other, she thought, while filling out the mail-order form for the cortosis storage crate. Because the method may be archaic, she knew the supplier won't miss it:

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ATTN: [member="Ella Nova"]

HOLOMAIL-ORDER FORM​

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Name: Janick Beauchamp
Shipping Address: 742 Evergreen Terrace, Kessil, Fourth Moon of Utapau

Description | Qty
Cortosis Storage Crate | 1

P.S.: Billing terms are negotiable

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[Darth Ayra]

| [member="Janick Beauchamp"] |

The Home was located somewhere near the planet of Bimmiel. An unknown planet to most Bimmiel had upon it's surface an outpost that was mostly used by smugglers or bounty hunters to collect work, mail or items that they normally couldn't get hold of when out in space. It also happened to be a place where Darth Ayra collected samples or items that were useful to her work. Having reached out to the Utai Magic Circle for one of their Utai Cuprate Reactors a deal had been agreed in principle where they would trade one of their reactors in exchange for credits and a Cortosis Storage Crate.

Having left the storage crate at the outpost in question and informed her Muun contacts on Muunilinst to wire the agreed sum of credits when the exchange was complete Darth Ayra waited for word from the Rodian, who ran the Bimmiel outpost, to contact her when the reactor was ready to be picked up.

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ATTN: Janick Beauchamp
Shipping Address: MZX33291 system, Bimmiel, Bimmiel Outpost.

x1 Utai Cuprate Reactor
Exchange: 10,000 credits, x1 Cortosis Crate (latter to be received upon delivery at Bimmiel Outpost)

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[Janick Beauchamp]

Bimmiel. What little she knew about that place was that it was in Sith space, and yet it was where [member="Ella Nova"], her client of the day, wanted the Utai Cuprate Reactor shipped. Based on the mail-order form, the journal entry would thus read: Dr. Cash 10000, Dr. PP&E x, Dr. Cost of goods sold y, Cr. Sales revenue x+10000, Cr. Inventory y. One big unknown here, even though the Circle was using FIFO (first-in, first-out) for inventory: the fair value of the cortosis storage crate. Poodoo: for all I taught Griet about how to transact on the futures market, both with restricted materials and for all other commodities, restricted materials, such as cortosis, also carried additional accounting implications: their restricted status made costs harder to determine, to say nothing of fair value determination, Janick thought, while trying to conjure some range of values for the crystal, and average out the extremes, and the same went for the storage crate. About the storage crate, the one thing she did know was that the crate was depreciable property but, since she expected the cortosis storage crate to have a rather long lifespan, she'd have to investigate the fair values of antique safes in an attempt to determine x. For shipments of this nature, shipment tracking was key. As soon as the courier was out with an envelope containing a jewelry box, itself containing the Utai Cuprate Reactor crystal, with the mailing address in the envelope, the courier gave an estimate of the shipment time:

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Shipment ETA: 3 days

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