Good day and I'm happy to share some details about the purchase order and how it affects your accounts, nicole_lahti.

A Purchase Order (PO) is a non-posting transaction, so it does nothing to the accounting and won't duplicate any of your expenses.

For the item receipt, this transaction increases your inventory asset account and accounts payable. Use this entry if you've received the items without a bill. 

Once you receive the bill from the vendor, proceed to Entering bills against inventory. This records the corresponding payable for the item receipt.

Here are the steps you can follow.

1. From the Home page, select Enter Bills against Inventory.
   
2. This opens the Select Item Receipt window.
3. From the Vendor drop-down, choose the correct vendor name.
4. To keep the original inventory availability date, mark the  Use Item receipt date for the bill date checkbox.
   
   
5. Select the Item Receipt that corresponds to your bill.
6. If there are multiple Item Receipts, convert each bill separately.
7. Click OK. QuickBooks converts the Item Receipt into a bill.
8. When you're ready to pay the bill, proceed to Pay bills.

Entering bills against the inventory is part of your usual Accounts Payable (A/P) workflow in QuickBooks. To see the complete list of steps and other vendor-related transactions, check out this article: A/P workflows in QuickBooks Desktop.

Keep me posted if you have additional questions about running inventory purchases through the Purchase Order. Just leave a comment below and I'll provide the answer that you need @nicole_lahti.