# Reporting on expected costs of recipes and products

The main costing reports in Breww are the following:

* Recipe cost breakdown

* Product expected cost report

* Actual batch costs report on the batch

* Margin by invoice and Margin by customer type which use the actual costs and sales price to calculate margins

## Recipe cost breakdown

You can view expected costs for a batch of a beer/recipe by going to **Recipes** -> **Cost report**, where Breww will run an expected cost report for that specific recipe. There you can also enter the expected wastage amount and tweak the expected ingredient costs to see the effect on the cost forecast.

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## Product expected cost breakdown

The "Product expected cost breakdown" report in **Reporting** -> **Production & inventory reports** will show the expected ingredient costs based on the beer's recipe and the packaging costs based on the product's stock items if they have been entered in Breww.

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> **Note:**
> If a product has the **Ignore container type default stock items** option enabled, the stock item costs from the container type will not be included in this report for that product. Only stock items directly assigned to the product will be factored into the packaging cost calculation. For more information on this setting, see our guide on [Assigning stock items to products or container types](https://breww.com/docs/assigning-stock-items/).

## Actual batch costs report

The "Actual batch costs" report can be accessed by going to **Production** -> **Batch #** -> **Reports** -> **Cost report**. This will show the actual ingredient costs of the batch, packaging costs and duty, as well as your utility costs if they have been entered in Breww. If the beer has [target costs](https://breww.com/docs/target-costs/), the report also shows the target per unit and the variance against it for each packaged item.

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## Margin by invoice and Margin by customer type

The "Margin by invoice" and "Margin by customer type" reports in **Reporting** -> **Sales reports** will use the actual costs and sales price to calculate margins. You can also choose to cost sales at your [target costs](https://breww.com/docs/target-costs/) instead, using the **Cost basis** option on each margin report. See [Cost basis on margin reports](https://breww.com/docs/margin-report-cost-basis/).

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