[GNC-dev] owner-report, receivables-aging etc

[Christopher Lam]

A corollary query is how to report on overpayments in the aging-table

* the Customer Report counts overpayments as negative amounts
* the Receivables Aging report shows $0 owed by customer

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On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 08:56, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wish to canvas opinion on what is considered best practice for the
> following real-data simulations, for rebuilding owner-report and
> aging-report. This illustrates current buggy behaviour.
>
> * I have a $100 customer invoice, posted- and due-dates 6 weeks ago.
> * I have a $50 credit-note to same customer, posted and due-dates are 2
> weeks ago.
>
> Intuitively the customer owes $50. But I haven't formally yet linked the
> credit-note to the invoice though. The $100 invoice is still unpaid
>
> Attachments show:
> * the Customer Report counts the $100 and $50 separately into separate
> owing date ranges.
> * the Receivables Aging report shows the CN $50 was automatically used to
> fund the $100 invoice, via FIFO (paying oldest invoice first).
>
> Which behaviour should we standardise on?
>
>
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