It will show a negative if you received more money than was invoiced to a
customer or if you have an "outstanding" invoice for a customer that has a
total amount due of something less than zero (indicating a credit).
I don't use the Balance field in Emerald because it's not tracked properly
(at least with Emerald 2.1.11 and below). Quite a few of my masteraccounts
have oddball balances listed for no apparent reason. I think when invoices
are voided, for example, the balance is not readjusted. There are probably
other things that cause the discrepencies too...
Josh Hillman
hillman@talstar.com
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emerald-request@iea-software.com
> > [mailto:emerald-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Josh Hillman
> > Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 10:13 AM
> > To: emerald@iea-software.com
> > Subject: Re: Current balance
> >
> >
> > > From: Bill Bongiorno <bill@systec.com>
> > > The amount owed by a customer shows as a bracketed (negative?)
amount.
> > This
> > > conflicts with page 66 of the user documentation where the
> > amount owed of
> > > 12.23 shows without brackets. Is this the way it is supposed to
> > be, or do
> > I
> > > have a problem? Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Go into your Control Panel on the machine running Emerald and
double-click
> > on
> > Regional Settings. Click on the Currency tab and change it to be
-$1.1
> > (or whatever you want).
> >
> > I don't know if you have to restart Emerald after making that
> > change. It's
> > just a display setting--not something that's stored in the database
> >
> > Josh Hillman
> > hillman@talstar.com
> >