[GNC] Customer Report - Account Receivable

[Geert Janssens]

Op woensdag 1 juli 2020 18:02:35 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone:
> Apologies,
> 
> My understanding of the Business Features was that there is one Accounts
> Receivable account of *type* ‘Accounts Receivable’ and there can be only
> one account of that type, and that the Business Features are not cognizant
> of ‘other Accounts Receivable’ accounts of type ‘asset’, and that one
> shouldn’t make manual entries in the main AR account.
> 
> I considered currencies and understood them to be sub-accounts of AR created
> by GnuCash.
> 
> Where is my understanding incorrect?
> 
There is no restriction on the number of AR accounts you can create. GnuCash doesn't enforce a 
single one, nor does it assume where in the account hierarchy it should be. And most reports 
handle this properly as far as I know.

In practice the most common use case for multiple AR accounts is as Frank pointed out: you can 
have one per currency you do business in. In that case you post invoices for customers in 
currency A to an AR account denominated in currency A, and invoices for customers in currency 
B to an AR account denominated in currency B.

You are correct one should try to avoid making manual changes to accounts of type A/R. And 
one can also create asset type accounts and treat them as A/R accounts manually and those are 
effectively completely ignored by the business features.

Regards,

Geert