AR Credit Balance Negative Account Review Procedure

Identify negative accounts receivable balances at or above an absolute review threshold and summarize their count, total credit, and oldest age.

Description

A receivables credit-balance review selects negative account balances under an explicit materiality threshold.

A receivables credit-balance review selects negative account balances under an explicit materiality threshold.^[1]

This tool reports selected account indices, their absolute total and their oldest recorded age.

When to use AR Credit Balance Negative Account Review Procedure

Use this tool to review selected account indices, their absolute total and their oldest recorded age.

How to use AR Credit Balance Negative Account Review Procedure and how it works

Establish the observations, units, reference context and assumptions described below.
Enter absoluteThreshold, accountBalances, ages and run the tool.
Read flaggedCount, flaggedIndices, oldestFlaggedAgeDays, totalCreditBalances using the meanings and sign conventions below.
Correct any rejected inputs and rerun; independently review the result under the stated scope.

Input field	Meaning	Value type	Requirement
absoluteThreshold	Nonnegative threshold in the balance monetary unit; equality is selected for negative balances.	number	Required; finite; minimum 0; branch conditions below
accountBalances	Finite signed balances on one ledger and monetary basis; negative values are credits.	array of number	Required; branch conditions below
ages	Nonnegative account ages in days aligned with balances; fractional days allowed.	array of number	Required; branch conditions below

Supply finite signed account balances and aligned nonnegative ages in days, plus a finite nonnegative absolute review threshold in the balance unit. Select only negative balances whose absolute amount is at least the threshold. Return zero-based selected indices, count, summed absolute selected credits and maximum selected age. Empty arrays are accepted; no matches give zero total and zero oldest-age sentinel. Fractional ages are allowed.

selected_i=(balance_i<0 && abs(balance_i)>=threshold); total=sum(abs(selectedBalance)); oldest=max(selectedAges) or 0

Use the stated ordering, units and branch conditions.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
flaggedCount	Number of negative accounts meeting the absolute review threshold.	number
flaggedIndices	Zero-based indices of selected negative balances in original order.	array of number
oldestFlaggedAgeDays	Maximum selected account age in days; zero means no selected account when the index list is empty.	number
totalCreditBalances	Total Credit Balances, using the scope, ordering and rule explained above.	number

json

{
  "input": {
    "absoluteThreshold": 1000,
    "accountBalances": [
      -5000,
      -200,
      1000
    ],
    "ages": [
      120,
      30,
      10
    ]
  },
  "output": {
    "flaggedCount": 1,
    "flaggedIndices": [
      0
    ],
    "oldestFlaggedAgeDays": 120,
    "totalCreditBalances": 5000
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

The result summarizes supplied audit observations under the stated arithmetic or checklist rule. It does not inspect underlying documents, select sufficient audit evidence, make a professional assurance judgment or establish regulatory compliance. Empty or all-true input can describe only the recorded assertions.

Supply explicit values and dense aligned arrays. Unexpected fields, wrong types and nonfinite scalar values are rejected; fixed-token, alignment and other branch conditions are explained above. A successful false flag, empty match list or unknown-evidence list differs from an input error. Extremely large inputs or nonrepresentable results may fail.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Bank Confirmation Form Standard Fields Completion Guide for a related operation: Bank-confirmation preparation involves several separately evidenced completion items.

Use Cash on Hand Count Denomination Sheet Procedure for a related operation: Cash denomination reconciliation compares counted values with system quantities and a separate expected balance.

References

AR Credit Balance Negative Account Review Procedure — tool.io

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