

Note: The Accounts Payable corresponding report would be Purchase Journal (PJ) or Cash Disbursements Journal (CDJ).

If discounts are applied to Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payables accounts, then discounts reduce income or expenses and should not be applied to the aging accounts.See Article ID 11137: How do I run the Internal Accounting Review? Another resource for any discrepancies can be found in the Internal Accounting Review.The best way to research this issue would be to print the General Ledger Report for the AR or AP account and verify where each transaction originated from in the Jrnl column.If receipts or payments to Sales Invoice or Purchase Receive Inventory transactions were applied in a prior period, they will appear on the Aging report for the period in which the receipt or payment was created.If any Cash Receipts Journal (CRJ) were entered, that isn't a prepayment and not applied against an invoice, use the AR account instead of an income account, then the aging report and the account will not match.If any entries were posted to the AR account that did not originate in either Sales Journal (SJ) or Cash Receipts Journal (CRJ), then the aging report and the account will not match.Did the Aging Report ever match the General Ledger account? If they matched last month, beginning balances are most likely not the cause.Note: A good source for this would be an Aging Report for the period immediately preceding your start date in Sage 50. If they never matched, focus on the Customer Beginning Balances that are missing or adjust the AR account so that it matches the total of the Customer Beginning Balances.Edition) were not equal, then the aging report and the account will not match. If the Beginning Account Balance for the Accounts Receivables (AR) account and the Customer Beginning Balances (for example, the outstanding invoices from before you started using Sage 50-U.S.In all cases, where Accounts Receivable (AR) is referred to, the same would apply for Accounts Payable (AP): Below are the most common reasons for discrepancies between the aging reports and their corresponding accounts. Note: The Aged Receivables and Aged Payables reports should always agree with their corresponding General Ledger accounts.
