Introducing accounting dimensions
You may have experienced that when managing and analyzing your outstanding Account Receivable trade account, you needed to create a special account in the chart of accounts for each of your customers, in order to capture and show the customer's AR trade balances, as shown in the table below:
|
Account |
Customer name |
Balance |
|---|---|---|
|
12110 |
Customer A |
1000 |
|
12111 |
Customer B |
1500 |
|
12112 |
Customer C |
1750 |
Even though you can use this approach when implementing ADempiere in your organization, it is suggested that you create only one Account Receivable trade account in the system.
If we use only one Account Receivable trade account, then how do we know the Account Receivable balances of each of our customers?
When posting a document, there is some information that gets recorded, in addition to the account information itself. Take a look at one of the examples from the available AR Invoice posting documents in the Invoice (Customer) window. This gives you the accounting...
