I have a customer who originally set up his business with inventory items. After 1 year in business, it was decided that tracking inventory would be much too difficult. He buys raw materials and uses portions of those materials to create a separate product(s) to sell. Since there are very few raw materials and only a few subsequent products that are created, he began to simply purchase raw materials as an expense and sell the product increasing his revenue.

Here's the problem...

We made all the inventory adjustments to bring his inventory to zero and posted instead to the expense/revenue accounts. This was accomplished through adjusting his sales and purchase invoices.

There are balances though in these former inventory accounts on the trial balance and I'd like to close them to zero, but (after reading other articles) I discovered these accounts are linked and will not show up in the general journal in order for me to accomplish what I need do.

When I try to remove the inventory items, Sage tells me they are tracked and i have to clear inventory tracking data in order to proceed. I made the mistake of following that procedure and was then unable to view any sales/purchase invoices as a  result...support just fixed that former problem today.

There has to be a way to simply change from a company who tracks inventory to one that doesn't.

What are my options? Anybody?