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August 17, 2021
Question

Balancing AR & AP with General Ledger

  • August 17, 2021
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Hello everyone,

      Is there a report in Enterprise Platinum that will balance Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable with my general ledger? I haven't been able to locate them. 

 

Thanks!

1 reply

Level 9
August 17, 2021

Let me share some insights when running the General Ledger report, BrittanySM.

 

The General Ledger report shows all your business financial activities with debit and credit account records. Since Accounts Receivables (A/R) keeps track of customer unpaid invoices and Accounts Payable (A/P) is an account that tracks all unpaid vendor bills, there's a tendency that these accounts will not balance out.

 

To run the report, you can follow these steps: 

 

  1. Click Reports from the menu and choose Accountant & Taxes.
  2. Select General Ledger.
  3. Set the date on which data you need and click Refresh
  4. You can scroll down to all of the accounts displayed and you'll see both A/R and A/P accounts.

For your next steps in handling reports and for further details, you can view these articles:

 

Let me know if you have other questions about financial reports in QBDT. I'll answer them for you. Take care!

August 17, 2021

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear in my first post. I didn't mean for AP & AR to balance with each other. I meant that in our previous system, we had a balancing report for each. An AP balancing with GL, and an AR balancing with the GL. Very similar to a trial balance report. I am trying to determine if QB has a similar report that I can run.

BigRedConsulting
Level 15
August 17, 2021

@BrittanySM wrote:

I meant that in our previous system, we had a balancing report for each. An AP balancing with GL, and an AR balancing with the GL. Very similar to a trial balance report. I am trying to determine if QB has a similar report that I can run.

 

In QuickBooks the GL is a result of all the transactions in all of your accounts. It's all integrated and there really isn't any way for the two to be different / out of balance.

 

Unless, that is, I don't understand what you mean by in balance. What is it the reports in your old system show that helps you?