Why do pending prices come back when I'm trying to determine an item's cost price?

Finance and Operations/AX Developer Forum
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Using this code, it will return a pending price if the pending price’s date is more current. This doesn’t make sense to me because our pending prices haven’t been “approved” yet.

InventPriceMap inventPrice;

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inventPrice = InventItemPrice::findCostingVersion(‘1001’, “Standard”, today(), CostingVersionPriceType::Cost, ‘DIM 2805292’, ‘SITE’);

2

The API meant to return the prices either simulated or activated prices.

Basically it will search and returns the latest prices either simulated or activated.

3

What is the reasoning behind that? Wouldn’t simulated (pending) prices be essentially possible prices that are not yet activated? Perhaps we are negotiating/guessing the price, but we are not sure yet. Why would AX pull that in as the price?