Accounts Receivable - Aging Report
FunctionThe Aging Report prints an aged trial balance of customer accounts in either numeric or alphabetic sequence, with the option of displaying detail or summarized information for each customer. This report can also be run to update customer aging information through the selection of checkboxes. To recalculate the aging summary without printing an Aging Report, use the Age AR Transactions task.
=> To access this task... Select Aging Report from the Accounts Receivable main menu.
AR Aging Report
About the Fields
In the Aging Date field...
From the Age by dropdown...
NOTE: When using the aging report to help determine whether or not a customer should be assessed finance charges, pay close attention to the date selected for aging.
From the Summary or Detail dropdown...
From the Report Sequence dropdown...
From the Sort Sequence dropdown...
In the Beginning/Ending Customer ID field... Is active when Customer ID Sequence (N) is selected in Sort Sequence step.
In the Beginning/Ending Alt Sequence field... Is active when Alternate Sequence (A) is selected in Sort Sequence step.
In the Beginning/Ending Salesperson field... Is active when Salesperson (S) is selected in the Report Sequence step.
Future Aging checkbox...
NOTE: For an aging report that can be used to balance the accounts receivable general ledger account, select Invoice Date (I) in the Age by field and check the Future Aging field.
Age Credits checkbox...
Update Customer Aging Summary checkbox...
ExampleIf the current month is June, but you want to print an aging as of February 28, uncheck this box so that the aging displayed under customer maintenance is not changed to reflect February amounts.
Include Customer Comments checkbox...
Fixed Size Aging Periods checkbox...
In the Aging Period Size field...
Export Format checkbox...
From date fields... Disabled when Fixed Size Aging Periods checkbox is checked. The From Future date field is always disabled, as are all the Thru date fields.
Days size fields... Disabled when Fixed Size Aging Periods checkbox is checked.
When done making selections...
Clicking the New/Clear Form button, the module issues this confirmation:
Save Changes
Creating the ReportWhen the Aging Report is created, the aging summary figures are recalculated for each customer and written to the Customer Master File.
Sample Aging Report
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