End of year reports question

[Des Dougan]

On 14 Apr 2009, at 08:13, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quoting Des Dougan <des at douganconsulting.com>:
>
>> Derek,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> On 14 Apr 2009, at 07:22, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> Des Dougan <des at douganconsulting.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> My accountant would like a breakdown of the A/R and A/P balances  
>>>> as  of
>>>> December 31; however, if I run an ageing report with that date, it
>>>> shows no transactions. Is there a way to report on the transactions
>>>> that make up the balances for these accounts?
>>>
>>> If it shows no transactions are you sure you have a balance as of  
>>> that
>>> date?
>>
>> I have a balance in both accounts according to the Balance Sheet.  
>> I  found that if I check the "Show zero-balance items" in the  
>> Ageing  Reports, then I get transactions displayed. However, the  
>> totals do not  match those displayed in the Balance Sheet.
>
> To me that implies you hand-entered transactions into A/R or A/P.
> Did you do that?  Are you sure that ALL transactions into AR and AP
> were entered via Invoice/Bills and Process-Payment?   And ONLY via
> those methods?

I'm pretty certain that is the case - I use the Business features for  
creating bills and invoices constantly. I just took a look through  
both registers. The only odd thing I see are several AP entries with  
"Automatic Payment Forward" in the Memo field and "Auto Split" in the  
Action field. The AR register, with "Show zero-balance items" checked,  
shows the same balance as the Balance sheet.

What does "Auto Payment Forward" mean? Is this caused by my error?

And should I raise a bug for the zero-balance checkbox issue?


Thanks,

Des


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