Customer aging graph

The Customer aging graph illustrates the number of days customer invoices have aged before they were paid. You can use several types of graphs to visually track how often customers paid their invoices by time period, account, customer, and more. Use this graph for a visual representation of the Customer aging report as a bar, line, pie, or other graph format.

Primary audience for this report

Finance managers are the primary audience for this report, as they’re responsible for spotting and correcting problems in the management of receivables. The Customer Aging report provides them with the necessary information to achieve their goals.

You can display the report as of today, or specify another date, and base the report on the invoice date, due date, or GL posting date. You might choose to filter the list by a single customer or all customers. You also have to ability to graph aging period totals or customer totals, or graph customer totals by your top customers.

For information on terms that may differ in your location, see Terminology across locales.

Generate the report

  1. Go to Accounts Payable > All > Reports.
  2. Select Customer Aging.
  3. Choose Graph.
    The graph page appears.

View a monthly report

  1. Generate the report.
  2. From the graph page, select View.
  3. Optionally, select Customize to refine the report, and follow the steps in Customize and Run.

Customize and run

Before running the report, you can select the time period and types of items to include as well as specify how you want the report to appear.

If you do not select any data entry boxes or specify any search options, the report may take a long time to run and return results that's too large to be useful.
  1. Select the reporting period from the dropdown menu, or enter the desired start and end dates. If you do not specify a reporting period, Intacct generates a report for the current month to date.
    • You can specify either the reporting period or the start and end dates, but not both.
  2. Set the filters for the desired data results.
    • Filters allow you to include or exclude specific types of data in the report. To achieve more precise results, setting more filters is recommended.
  3. Format the report.
    • Options vary from report to report. Generally, you can set the report layout and arrange how to group and display the data.
  4. Enter a title, subtitle, and footer text for the report.
  5. View, print, process, add to the dashboard, memorize, export, or customize the report by selecting from the following options:
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    Print

    Generate the report and store it for later access. Available formats include HTML, printable (PDF), Excel, CSV (comma-separated value), and Text. Reports can be stored:

    • In Intacct
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    Add the report to your dashboard.

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    Memorize (that is, save) the report in the Memorized reports list so that later you can refer back to it or modify and re-run it.

    You can schedule memorized reports to run on a recurring basis. Intacct can automatically email the reports or deliver them to a cloud storage location.

    Memorize

    Export the report to a separate file that you can then distribute or save to your local drive.  Available file formats vary among reports.

    Export

    After you run a report, you can either email it to others or return to the Report Settings page to refine the results.

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    Email the report to others.

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    Return to the main report page and refine the report further.

    Customize

You can use trial-and-error to get the precise results you want. Just fill in the desired fields, and select View to see the report. If the results aren't what you want, select Customize to return to the report setup page and refine the report further. Repeat this process until you're satisfied.

For complex financial reports that will be run regularly, save the report after you're done setting it up. The next time you're ready to run the report, you only have to change the As of date before running the report.

Set the time period

You can adjust the time period, customer type, and other details as necessary. For example, you might prefer listing the outstanding amounts by due date rather than invoice date.

  1. For Time period, set one of the following:
    • Use a predefined time period:
      1. Select the Aging periods down arrow, and then select the period you want.
      2. Select either Today or Selected for the Report as of date (the date used as a baseline for the period that you select; leave blank for today's date). If you choose Selected date, you must specify the date in the Selected date box.
    • Specify a custom time period by entering a start date in the Selected date field.
  2. For the Based on date, choose one of the following:
    • Invoice date
    • Due date
    • GL posting date
    • Intacct displays the Based on date type at the head of the report.

      Online reports can cover up to 60 periods. PDF reports can cover up to 12 periods.
Time period options
Time Period Notes

Aging periods

Select the desired period.

Report as of

Select Today to use today's date.

Selected date

Specify the date on which to list the outstanding amounts customers owe.

Based on

Set and display the date type you are basing the report on: invoice date, due date, or the GL posting date. Intacct displays the Based on date type at the head of the report.

Set report filters

Use filters to focus the results of your report. Filters allow you to only view a specific set of data. You can use any combination of filters to achieve the desired results.

For example, might filter report results by customer name, type, or sales territory.

  1. To set the report to show results for a specific customer or range of customers, choose from the From customer and To customer dropdown lists.
  2. To show results for a specific customer type, select Customer type dropdown, and choose the type.
  3. To show results for a specific sales territory, enter the name of the territory in the Territory field or select the icon and choose the territory from the list.

In a multi-entity environment, you can filter by location, department, or both.

The following table describes each item in the Filters section of this report settings page:

Filters report settings
Filters Notes

From customer, To customer

Enables you to get data only for that specific customer or range of customers. By default these boxes are blank, which means the report will get results for all customers.

Customer type

Enables you to get data only for the type of customer you specify here. By default this box is blank, which means the report will get results for all customer types.

Territory

Enables you to select a specific territory if you organize your sales geographically. You can also select predefined groups of territories. For example, you can select the group US TERR, which includes WEST and EAST. The report will include the data only for the territories you selected.

Individual report

Select this option if you want each entity or department and/or territory to have its own report page.

Due to their potentially large size, reports with departments and locations on individual pages can be run offline only. Therefore, if you select the Individual report option, you can select only Process and store.

Prompt on Run

Select this checkbox to force the system to wait for you (or anyone using this report) to enter a location, department, and/or time period before it will run the report.

Location

Enables you to limit report results to a specific location.

Department

Enables you to limit report results to a specific department.

Show for

Enables you to display transactions for certain locations regardless of the location selected in the Location dropdown.

All Locations: show transactions for all locations within the location specified in the Location box.

This Location: show transactions for the entity's location within the location specified in the Location box.

Child Locations: shows transactions only for areas subordinate to the location of your entity.

Group data

Use the boxes in this section to specify how to organize the data graphically. You can graph aging period totals or customer totals.

  • Select Totals to display the total amounts due for the selected aging period.
  • Select Show top to display only customers whose aged amounts fall within a specified range. You must also specify the range in the Customer range from and To customer fields. For example, suppose you have five customers with the following aged amounts:
    Aging period totals per customer
    Customer Aged Amount

    Customer C

    $150.00

    Customer B

    $100.00

    Customer A

    $99.99

    Customer F

    $88.10

    Customer M

    $5.00

Examples:

Show top, Customer range from 2, Range to 3 creates a graph that includes only Customer B and Customer A.

Show top, Customer range from 1, Range to 3 creates a graph that includes only Customer C, Customer B, Customer A.

Show top, Customer range from 4, Range to 4 creates a graph that appears only Customer F.

Select a graph format

Choose the desired graph type from the dropdown list.

Graph types
Format Notes

Graph Type

Choose from the following graphs:

  • line

  • column

  • 3D column

  • pie

  • 3D pie

  • doughnut

  • 3D doughnut

  • bar

  • 3D bar

  • area

Add titles and footers

Titles, subtitles, and footers apply only to the PDF version of this report.

Generate a PDF version

  1. Open the report and select Graph.
  2. From the graph page, select Print.

To add a title, subtitle, and comments to the report:

  1. Enter the title in the Graph title 1 box.
    • This title appears in large type at the top of the page, directly under your company name,
    • You can enter over any default name that appeared automatically in this box.
  2. Enter the subtitle in the Graph title 2 box.
    • The subtitle appears in smaller type, directly beneath the main title.
  3. Enter the footer text in the Title comment box. The title comment text appears at the bottom center of the report.
You can use up to 80 characters, including spaces, in each title, subtitle, and footer.