{"id":122,"date":"2020-10-05T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/?p=122"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:00:40","slug":"daily-balance-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/modules\/receivables\/daily-balance-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep track of A\/R balances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Lesson #52<\/h6>\n<h5>Receivables \u2013 Daily Balance Log function<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Get an instant snapshot of accounts receivable \u2014 or reestablish a starting balance as of a certain date<\/strong> \u2014 by using this audit function. You can view the report for your company as a whole, for a single business unit, or for several BUs.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Balance Log defaults to all transactions for your company in the current month to date. You can change the start date for reporting transactions to find previous starting balances.<\/p>\n<p>The report lists all dates within your specified range on which transactions occurred that affected your accounts receivable and displays the day\u2019s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beginning balance<\/li>\n<li>Amounts from transactions that increased and decreased A\/R<\/li>\n<li>Ending balance after the increases are added and the decreases are subtracted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Daily Balance Log uses the entered date of a Receivables transaction instead of the post date (when it was closed out) to match the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/modules\/receivables\/aged-a-r\/\">Aged A\/R report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can view any listed day\u2019s transactions broken out and grouped according to type (invoices, payments, debits, voids, write-offs, etc.). You can also sort these breakout lists by invoice number or date.<\/p>\n<p>You can export the report and breakout lists as\u00a0<em>Excel<\/em> or CSV files to save, share, print, or use in other applications.<\/p>\n<p><em>NOTE: This is an RB9 Standard-only function. It is not included in RB9 Lite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR: Use this audit function to see accounts receivable balances for any date. For example if you need to reestablish a starting balance as of a certain date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>RB9 concepts in this lesson<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Business Unit (BU):<\/strong> One of your company\u2019s revenue centers or any entity in your business that you want to track separately \u2014 such as branch offices, other companies you own, affiliates, and profit-sharing operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this audit function to see accounts receivable balances for any date \u2014 for example if you need to reestablish a starting balance as of a certain date <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/modules\/receivables\/daily-balance-log\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,226,21],"tags":[181,250,228,3,22],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-function","category-lesson","category-receivables","tag-daily-balance-log","tag-email-second-round","tag-emailed-lesson","tag-rb9-standard","tag-receivables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}