Aged Receivables
Aged receivables sorts everything you’re owed by how overdue it is — current, 1–30 days late, 31–60, 61–90, and beyond. It turns one lump total of money owed into a list of exactly which invoices need a reminder today.
What it means
A single accounts-receivable total tells you how much is owed; an aging breakdown tells you how worried to be about it. A pile of invoices that are all one week old is a normal Tuesday. The same total pile, with a third of it sitting in the 61-plus-days column, is a collections problem starting to form.
The buckets also match a reminder cadence naturally: current invoices get nothing yet, 1–30 days gets a gentle nudge, 31–60 gets a firmer one, and anything past 60 or 90 is where you start deciding whether it’s still worth chasing or heading toward bad debt.
Your aging report shows $2,000 current, $600 at 1–30 days, and $340 sitting at 61–90 days. The $340 is the one that needs a phone call today — the rest can wait for its normal reminder.
Treating every overdue invoice the same regardless of age — sending the same gentle nudge to a client three days late and one three months late, instead of escalating the older one.
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