# View inventory transactions

The Inventory Transactions facility allows you to view every single inventory transaction that has occurred for every item back for as long as inventory transactions are kept (you can elect to purge inventory transactions that occurred before the current financial year).

Every time any transaction occurs for an item, a corresponding inventory transaction is recorded. Not all inventory transactions actually update the quantity in stock for the item (for example, a Sales order updates the Qty Committed for an item but not its quantity in stock)

If you double-click on any of the displayed transactions, the corresponding record to which that transaction relates will be displayed.