The exchange of accounts receivable and accounts payable
The exchange of accounts receivable and accounts payable is a special tool used rarely but which can only be replaced by numerous and successive operations. This tool allows to take an amount due to the account receivable and to apply it to an amount due to the account payable. The reverse can also be done.
The first thing to do is to choose the customer and supplier accounts concerned. Then, you must choose the section with the lowest amount. If the amounts are equal, the selection order is not important. In this example, the amount receivable is smaller than the amount payable. This selection order tells the system that the amount receivable will be crossed out (see symbol to the right of the bracket in the Selection box) and carried over to payables.
Depending on the type of exchange the amount will be placed in payment, credit, or one-way credit. A one-way credit means that the lower part of the exchange is completely destroyed from the section and carried over to the other. The other types of exchange, payment and standard credit, keep the lower part and add a credit to cancel the exchanged receivable.
Note: The one-way credit is used to nothing more or less move a supplier invoice (in this case) to the creation of a credit in accounts receivable.
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