Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made on the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made on the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display on the screen, you can override the defaults.

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Use the drop-down list to choose whether to compute the finance charges by customer account or by invoice number.

Enter, or use the drop-down list to select, the range of customer accounts or invoice numbers for which you want to calculate finance charges.

The options are:

• All: Select this option to include all available customer accounts or invoice numbers. The Start and End fields are disabled for this option.
• One: Select this option to include only one customer account or invoice number. You must enter that customer account or invoice number in the Start field. The End field is disabled for this option.
• Range: Select this option to include a contiguous range of customer accounts or invoice numbers. You must enter the beginning customer account or invoice number for the range in the Start field and the ending customer account or invoice number of the range in the End field.
• From Beginning: Select this option to include all the customer accounts or invoice numbers from the beginning of the available customer accounts or invoice numbers to a specific customer account or invoice number in the range. You must enter the last customer account or invoice number for the range in the End field. The Start field is disabled for this option.
• To End: Select this option to include all the customer accounts or invoice numbers from a specific customer account or invoice number to the end of all the available customer accounts or invoice numbers. You must enter the customer account or invoice number from which the range should begin in the Start field. The End field is disabled for this option.

If you selected One, Range, or To End in the Option field, enter, or click to select, the starting customer account or invoice number to include for finance charges for that option. This field is unavailable if you select All or From Beginning in the Option field.

If you selected Range or From Beginning in the Option field, enter, or click to select, the ending customer account or invoice number to include for finance charges for that option. If you select All, One, or To End in the Option field, this field is unavailable.

This field displays One to indicate that you can compute finance charges for one fiscal year, period, and subperiod.

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year of the finance charges that you want included in the computation.

Enter, or click to select, the period of the finance charges that you want included in the computation.

Enter, or click to select, the subperiod of the finance charges that you want included in the computation.

This field displays the ending date for the fiscal year, period, and subperiod that you select.

Select this check box to delete all computed finance charges from the accounts receivable finance charges table. This process does not delete any information from the Accounts Receivable History table, so your customers' accounts receivable records are still accessible. Purging computed finance charges makes more space available in your database.

Select this check box to print the Finance Charges report. This check box is selected by default.

Select this check box to include those invoices that have no current period charges.

Click drop-down and select Compute Customer Finance Charges to compute the finance charges. A list of finance charges will be printed for the computation.

Click drop-down and select Print/Compute Customer Finance Charges to compute the finance charges and then print a list of the charges.