RE: Current balance

Bill Bongiorno ( (no email) )
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:15:16 -0400

It shows a negative as soon as the initial invoice is issued to a customer.
Before any payments were received. Unless Dale can shed some light on this I
guess I'll live with positives showing negative and negatives showing
positive. Thanks for your help.

Bill Bongiorno
SysTec Computer Associates, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emerald-request@iea-software.com
> [mailto:emerald-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Josh Hillman
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 1:45 PM
> To: emerald@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: Current balance
>
>
> > From: Bill Bongiorno <bill@systec.com>
> > The currency symbol in regional settings is $ as it should be.
> All of the
> > choices for negative number format have either brackets of a minus sign.
> > What I can't understand is why it is being treated as a
> negative, instead
> of
> > a positive, number.
>
> 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
> > >
>