Reports
Open POs: including orders already invoiced
The report normally answers one question: what still has to be accrued? It therefore lists only purchase orders that are not yet completely invoiced, because only their remaining part is left to accrue. That is the month-end accrual figure, and it is what the report shows by default.
Controlling sometimes needs a different picture — the whole period, including the orders that were fully invoiced within it. For that, the loading options offer, under Additional Options, the setting Also include POs already invoiced in this period (for controlling).
With it ticked, the report additionally lists purchase orders that are Completely Paid, Closed, Closed Partially Paid or Closed Completely Paid. These rows have nothing left to accrue — that is why the accrual value on them is zero, which is correct and not a gap.
Three columns go with this:
Budgeted and Invoiced stay hidden unless the option is ticked and the result actually contains such a row, so the ordinary accrual view is not cluttered by them. The Excel export follows the screen exactly: Already Invoiced is always exported, the two controlling columns only when they are visible.
Two things are worth keeping in mind when reading the figures. Invoiced is shown in each order's own currency, so a mixed-currency report must not simply be summed over that column. And Budgeted reflects the booking made when the order was placed; later budget adjustments are not retro-applied to it.
See also
As a rule of thumb: for the accrual, leave the option off; for reconciling a period, switch it on.