No linesin receivables aging report

[Derek Atkins]

Erik Haagensen <erik.haa at gmail.com> writes:

>> Why do you have multiple A/R accounts?
>
> Actually I don't have.... and I really do not need anything else than for the
> local currency.
> But the setup for Norwegian Chart of Accounts had a placeholder account above
> the actual Customer outstanding- account.
> So to me it seems like Gnucash insist of using this placeholder account.

AH!  Change the account type of the placeholder from A/R to Asset.

>> You can run the report and then after you set the correct account you
>> can rename it to e.g. "USD Receivable Aging" and then click "Add Report"
>> to save it as a Custom Report.  Then in the future you can run the
>> custom report.
>
> If I can remove the placeholder account I'll try that.
> If not I'll try the custom report suggestion.

-derek

> 2012/1/24 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     Erik Haagensen <erik.haa at gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > Answer is "Yes" to both questions.
>     >
>     > I changed to correct account in Report Options - and then it worked !!
>     >
>     > However I have to change account each time I run the report.
>     > How can I set the correct account as default ?
>    
>     Why do you have multiple A/R accounts?
>    
>     You can run the report and then after you set the correct account you
>     can rename it to e.g. "USD Receivable Aging" and then click "Add Report"
>     to save it as a Custom Report.  Then in the future you can run the
>     custom report.
>    
>     > and ....
>     > of course it is Gnucash 2.4.9  !!  Sorry about that mistake.
>    
>     * nods *
>    
>     -derek
>    
>     > 2012/1/23 Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     On Mon, January 23, 2012 10:25 am, erik_h wrote:
>     >     > I have implemented a locale accounts plan.
>     >     > And no I have no results in receivables aging report, in spite
>     that
>     >     there
>     >     > are several invoices that have not been paided.
>     >     >
>     >     > Maybe the report "is looking" at wrong account.
>     >     > Can I define this in any way ?
>     >
>     >     You entered your invoices through Business -> Customer interfaces?
>     >     You entered your payments through Business -> .. -> Process Payment?
>     >
>     >     If either of these are *no* then the existing Aging reports wont
>     work.
>     >     If both are YES, then you can go into the report options and choose
>     your
>     >     A/R account.  This begs the question:  Why do you have multiple A/R
>     >     Accounts?  The only time you would need that would be if you're
>     operating
>     >     in multiple currencies, in which case you would need one A/R per
>     currency.
>     >
>     >     In the report options you can select the Account (and currency).
>     >
>     >     > Erik_H
>     >     >
>     >     > Gnucash 4.2.9
>     >     > Win XP SP3
>     >
>     >     I presume you mean 2.4.9, as there is no GnuCash 4.x
>     >
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>     >     -derek
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