[GNC] Customer Report - Account Receivable

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 1, 2020 w27d183, at 11:25 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> 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