Aged Debtors Report Balancing to the GL

To balance the Aged Debtors report to the GL Status of Accounts or Balance Sheet reports, you must run the two reports back to back with no one in the system.

Aged Debtors Report

Access Reports.
Select Reports-Accounting.
Select Aged Debtors.
Click the Criteria Tab and select the following criteria.

Report Mode	*Balance to Last Month-End*
Agency	*All Agencies*
Branch	*All Branches*
Department	*All Departments*
Age Date	03/31/17 (Will vary. It MUST be the system date)
Age Categories	*30, 31-60, 61-90, 90*
Mailmerge Data	*Exclude Mailmerge Data*
Client Type	*All Clients w/o Direct Bill*
Customers	*All Customers*
Customer Service Reps	*All CSR (A/H)s*
Introducer	*All Introducers*
Personal/Commercial	*Both Lines*
Prebill Option	Items in or after: APR17 (MUST select Items in Future Acctg month)
Balance	*All Balances*
Customer Codes	*All Customer Codes*
Output Option	*Complete Report*
Sort Option	Customer (Using some other sorts will not balance back to the GL)
Consolidate Congloms?	No
Include PDCs?	No (Canadian TAM Only)

Status of Accounts Report

Immediately after running the Accounts Debtors report but before anyone logs in and does work, run a Status of Accounts report for Accounts Receivable and for the month you are balancing (i.e., the first unposted month. Click Yes when prompted to Regenerate Month-End journal entries.

Run the Status of Accounts Report:

Access Reports.
Select Reports-General Ledger.
Select Status of Accounts.

Balance the year-to-date by subtracting the Prebill figure on the last page of the Aged Debtors report from the Total figure on the Status of Accounts report. This should match the account balance for Accounts Receivable on the Status of Accounts report.

You cannot run this report and get it to balance back to a previous month. You can only run it as of right now to get it to match. You cannot run these reports on June 15 and try and match back to May 31. If you want the report to balance as of May 31, run the reports on that day.

Troubleshooting Tips

The Aged Debtors Report Will Not Balance to a Prior Month

You cannot run the Aged Debtors accurately for previous months. Therefore, it is impossible to run an Aged Debtors report today and have it match the figure on a Balance Sheet or Status of Accounts for a previous month.

Check all parameters on the Aged Debtors report closely. They must not differ from the parameters above. For example, you might run the Aged Accounts Receivable report just for personal lines, because your agency does not write commercial line business. However, a transaction might not have picked up a personal lines flag, so your Aged Debtors report would not include it, but Status of Accounts or Balance Sheet would.

Pre-Billed Option

This parameter looks at the month filed on the transaction – not the transaction date, effective date, or due date. An item could be transacted on 10/01/17 but placed in a SEP17 accounting month.

Sort Option

Since you balance the receivable and not the income account, use the Customer sort. Other sort options could skew figures.

If you set up multiple agencies, branches, or departments, the Aged Accounts Receivable and Status of Accounts reports for a single agency/branch/dept should balance. If they do not balance, run both reports for all agencies, branches, and departments. You could have a transaction filing unassigned to an agency/branch/dept.

If trying the Aged Debtors and Balance Sheet reports do not balance, try matching the Aged Debtors report to the Status of Accounts instead. The Balance Sheet and Status of Accounts should always be the same, but the Balance Sheet is calculated differently, and the Status of Accounts is always accurate.