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The days in arrears display shows you the number of days the open items are overdue or the number of days in which they are due. You can display:

For this display, you can use the due date for net payment or the date up to which the customer can receive, or could have received cash discount. If some items are not yet due, the system shows the number of days in which they are due by displaying negative numbers.

Displaying Days in Arrears and Due Dates for Open Items

To display the number of days open items are overdue, or the number of days in which they will fall due, proceed as follows from the Accounts Receivable menu:

  1. Choose Account ® Analysis . The initial screen appears.
  2. Enter the customer, company code, and fiscal year.
  3. Choose Goto ® Open items ® All items ® Net terms in order to see the days in arrears, or the due date for net payment.
  4. Choose Goto ® Open items ® All items ® Cash discount terms in order to see the due dates for payment and claiming cash discount.

    Within the display, you can also change between net and cash discount terms by selecting Edit ® Net/Cash discount .

  5. Choose Edit ® Due/not due, to display only the due or not yet due items. In the display itself, you can switch between the due items and the not yet due items.

Displaying Overdue Items

On the Customer Account Analysis initial screen, you can display either the overdue items, or the items that are not due yet.

To see the days in arrears of overdue items, choose Goto ® Open items ® Overdue items ® Net terms or Cash discount terms .

If the list generated is longer than the first page for the screen display, the system shows the number of additional items that are overdue at the end of each screen. Next to the number of items, you will also see the total of all overdue amounts within this interval of days in arrears.

Displaying Open Items Not Yet Due

To view items not yet due, choose Goto ® Open items ® Items not due ® Net terms or Cash discount terms on the initial screen .

The next screen shows when the open items are due (number of days).