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Find out how Accounts Receivable Balance and Outstanding Amount are are calculated.

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What

is Balance

is a Balance Calculation?

In CRM.COM Accounts Receivable Balance is not saved in the system but it is the Balance of an account is a dynamically calculated field. There are 2  Two different types of balance that Balances are being used:

  • Accounts Receivable Balance: 
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       - The aggregated amount of posted debits and credits allocated against the Accounts Receivable
, as of a specific date.paid and are
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       - Calculated as the latest accounting period's opening balance plus all of the Financial Transactions posted against the accounts receivable during this latest accounting period. 
  • Accounts Receivable Outstanding Amount: The total outstanding amount which is owed by the customer, as of a specific date, which is the aggregated amount of posted unpaid debits which
are not 
  •  are past their due date. 
     

Account Balance , and Account Outstanding amount are both available via the Accounts Receivable Summary and Data Entry pages.

Calculating the Accounts Receivable Balance

The Balance of an account's receivable Accounts Receivable is the total amount of debit and credit financial transactions Financial Transactions which are posted against that account, as of a specific date.

The Accounts Receivable balance Balance is calculated based on with the following formula:

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titleApplicable up to R9
 Balance = Sum (Total amount of all debit transactions which were posted against that account

, having a posted date up to the specified as of date

) - Sum (Total amount of all credit transactions which

ere

were posted against that account

, having a posted date up to the specified as of date

)

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titleAvailable from CRM.COM R10.0.0
  Balance = Opening balance of the accounts receivable Sum (Total amount of all debit transactions which were posted against that account and are not related to any Accounting Period) - Sum (Total amount of all credit transactions which were posted against that account and are not related to any Accounting Period)

Calculating the Accounts Receivable Outstanding Amount

The outstanding amount of an Accounts Receivable is the total outstanding amount which is owned total owed by the customer , as of (on a specific date, which is ); the aggregated amount of posted debits which are not paid and are past their due payment date.

The outstanding amount is calculated based on with the following formula:

Outstanding

amount

Balance

Max(Accounts Receivable Balance, Zero)

 (Total amount of all debit transactions which were posted against that account, having a due date greater or equal to current date) - Sum (Total amount of all credit transactions)

 

Note

Visit Understanding Accounts Receivable for business examples related to Accounts Receivable calculations

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