Receivables Aging Report - HowTo

[Maf. King]

On Monday 22 February 2010 23:28:50 rvportugal wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I´m trying to evaluate the expected incoming over the next months from
> posted invoices using the receivables aging report. As a result I have all
> invoices from a client being summed up in one single period of 30 days. I´m
> a newbie to finances and GnuCash, so any help will be very appreciated!
>
> Here what happens, I created 3 invoices for a J. Doe on the Feb 20th, 2010
> (“Date opened”). They were posted with “Post Date” as 20/02/2010 and “Due
> Date” for 25/02/2010, 25/03/2010 and 25/04/2010, respectively. All “Post to
> account” to a “test” A/R account. Each invoice of R$500,00 (Brazilian
> Reais).
>
> If I create the report on the Feb 22nd , I have this:
>
> 	Company	0-30 days	31-60 days	61-90 days	91+ days	Total
> 	J. Doe		R$ 1.500,00	R$ 0,00	R$ 0,00	R$ 0,00	R$ 1.500,00
> 	Total		R$ 1.500,00	R$ 0,00	R$ 0,00	R$ 0,00	R$ 1.500,00
>
> I would expect to have R$500 in each period ranging from 0 to 90 days. Am I
> missing some basic concept here or is it something about the way I post the
> invoices?
>
> I´m running version 2.2.9 on Windows 7, UK date format, Portuguese-Br.

Hi, 

The aging report shows how old each invoice is - in your case, all 3 invoices 
are only 2 days old, so the report is correct.

In all other respects, it sounds to me that your procedures are "correct", but 
IANAA etc....

HTH,
Maf.


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