How to track the customer accruals, if the ar is on cash basis?

Question

hi,
my clients wants his AR books to be maintained on cash basis, because of his business complusions. but at the same time , he wants to track the outstandings against his cutomers. he is also not ready to setup two SOB(one on cash basis and another on accrual basis), as he does not want to do the entry twice.
if sombody has faced a similiar problem/ have an idea how to go about it. please enlighten.

Answer 1

Let us first analyse the problem. The question has two parts. One is related to the business process and second one is related accounting.
Oracle Apps has two steps here:
1) Creation of invoice to recognize the sale
2) Receipt of cash against receivable
Client will follow both the steps, but he would like to pass only one accounting entry instead of two. The default accounts need to be defined appropriately and receivable account is not required in this case.
Aging analysis is done only for receivables and this is based on the accounting entry created at the time of invoicing. In our case we are not going to create invoice unless we receive cash against the sale.
But we can still monitor our customer dues based on the customer orders, which are shipped to the customer. We may need to create a separate report for this purpose and register this report in OA.