Receivable Ageing report options?

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Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:53:48 <561C1DDC.3050406 at yahoo.co.uk>
Katie Eldridge <eldridgetideswell-katie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote...

>Dear all,
>I'm a fairly new user of Gnucash and double entry book-keeping, and 
>just went to see the accountant for our company year end.
>He liked all the reports I'd given him,

That's nice to hear :)

> but also wanted a list of outstanding invoices (with total for each 
>invoice) at the year end as a break down of the Accounts Receivable 
>line on the balance sheet.

If he is a good accountant what he really wants to know is stuff like:

are you owed too much money by one customer or another, are you 
vulnerable to a single customer not paying you because their business 
fails, etc.

>I assumed that this would be in the receivable ageing report options, 
>but that only shows a per customer total for amounts currently 
>outstanding, even when I change the date (ie if the date is the end of 
>August it shows the amount outstanding now of items which had been 
>invoiced by then, rather than the invoices outstanding then, some of 
>which have now been paid).

Which version of gnc are you using? The Receivable Ageing report should 
allow you to click on the Total column for a customer and see a Customer 
Report (in UK-ese we call this a statement of an account or similar) 
which you can print out and show to your accountant.

>Is there an easy way of getting such a report, or would this need a 
>custom report using eguile (which looks rather beyond my limited 
>programming skills)?

Heh.  It should already be there if you look at it from the question 
asked rather than answer expected POV.

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