Look at your Inventory Status - its in the IC Utility menu

Depending on your COSTING Method  (Standard, FIFO, LIFO, Average ) is how the COST field behaves

Copied from the online help in BW 2013 (below)

Basic terms & costing methods

Each physical good that you sell or include with a service is called a part. The amount you pay for a part is the cost, and the amount you charge your customers for a part is the price. To expedite your sales, you may need to keep some parts in stock. All together, the parts that you have in stock make up your inventory. (For more definitions, see How I/C & O/E terms differ.)

Using the available cost information, the system can compute the value of your inventory by any of four costing methods:

Standard costing: An arbitrary figure you assign to a part indicating what its value should be.

Average costing: If you use average costing, the system calculates a new unit cost each time parts are received.

First-in, first-out (FIFO): Under FIFO, parts are received and issued at their actual cost, and the oldest parts are assumed to be issued first.

Last-in, first-out (LIFO): Under LIFO, parts are received and issued at their actual cost, and the newest parts (most recently received) are assumed to be issued first.

We recommend you discuss costing methods with your accountant before deciding on the costing method you use because the way you value your inventory can have a dramatic impact on your financial reports.

The Sample transactions show how the different costing methods affect the valuation of your inventory.

Look at your Inventory Status - its in the IC Utility menu

Depending on your COSTING Method  (Standard, FIFO, LIFO, Average ) is how the COST field behaves

Copied from the online help in BW 2013 (below)

Basic terms & costing methods

Each physical good that you sell or include with a service is called a part. The amount you pay for a part is the cost, and the amount you charge your customers for a part is the price. To expedite your sales, you may need to keep some parts in stock. All together, the parts that you have in stock make up your inventory. (For more definitions, see How I/C & O/E terms differ.)

Using the available cost information, the system can compute the value of your inventory by any of four costing methods:

Standard costing: An arbitrary figure you assign to a part indicating what its value should be.

Average costing: If you use average costing, the system calculates a new unit cost each time parts are received.

First-in, first-out (FIFO): Under FIFO, parts are received and issued at their actual cost, and the oldest parts are assumed to be issued first.

Last-in, first-out (LIFO): Under LIFO, parts are received and issued at their actual cost, and the newest parts (most recently received) are assumed to be issued first.

We recommend you discuss costing methods with your accountant before deciding on the costing method you use because the way you value your inventory can have a dramatic impact on your financial reports.

The Sample transactions show how the different costing methods affect the valuation of your inventory.

would my costing method have changed in doing the upgrade? We've been using B/W for so many years that I can't remember how we used to have it set up.

To view last cost use PARTS INQUIRY not maintain parts, this goes true for MARGIN pricing

I am using Standard Costing - and yes, I can see my Cost in PARTS INQUIRY. That's good! Thanks for that tip.

But before the conversion I could also see my Cost in the Maintain Parts screen - I need to be able to see Cost in that screen because I need access to my Components while I am reviewing my Cost .

Any more ideas what could have changed?

You won't believe this....all of a sudden I am seeing my Cost in Maintain Parts.

You guys are, like, MAGICAL!

Thanks...

(weird, huh?)

Actually, what I just figured out was that I could see COSTS while I was logged in as Manager, but when I logged in as as User my security settings were not updated.

Not Magic after all. But you all helped me get there.... THANK YOU~!