To help you manage accounts receivable, Business Central offers standard reports and analytics tools. You can also design various types of reports yourself, such as Power BI, Data Analysis, or Excel.
Analyze accounts receivable with Power BI
The Power BI Finance app has multiple reports for accounts receivable.
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Analyze how many days it takes to collect accounts receivable. Find trends in the average collection period over time. Details such as the number of days, accounts receivable, and accounts receivable (average) provide context and enhance the analysis.
Categorize customer balances into aging buckets and see a breakdown by payment terms. Age by document date, due date, or posting date, and customize the aging bucket size by specifying the number of days.
You can use Data Analysis on the Customer Ledger Entries page to explore what your customers owe you. You can break down the information into time intervals for when amounts are due.
To get an overview of the reports that are available for finance, choose All Reports on your Home page. This action opens the Role Explorer, which is filtered to the features in the Report & Analysis option. Under the Finance heading, choose Explore.
The following table describes some of the key reports in accounts receivable. The reports are designed to help different roles in finance and collections departments make informed decisions.
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Analyze customer balances at the end of each period, either in local or in foreign currency. Use as a gauge to measure the reliability of debt collections for your customers. Easily reconcile the customer subledger against the receivables accounts in the general ledger, assuming that direct posting is disabled.
Analyze outstanding sales orders and understand expected sales volumes for customers. Compare your overall outstanding shipments with the planned shipment date and find overdue back orders.
Analyze item sales per customer to understand sales trends, optimize inventory management, and improve marketing efforts. Assess the relationship between discounts, sales amounts, and volume of item sales.
Generate customer statements to get a clear summary of amounts due. You can share the amounts with customers to follow up on payments. For example, if you need to close an accounting period or fiscal year.
Analyze and reconcile customer balances at the end of a period. Explore opening balances, transactions within the period, and closing balances for customers.
Configure the Accounts receivable module in Dynamics 365 Finance to create customer invoices, post packing slips, and use free text invoices that aren't related to sales orders. In this learning path, you also learn how to do daily tasks in accounts receivable.