Claim (bookkeeping)

How I usually incorporate a claim or vordering in an administration, e.g., when invoicing:

Send an invoice

Account kind | Debet - Balance     |  Credit - P&L    | Credit - Balance
Account      | Accounts receivable |  Revenue         | VAT to disburse
             | (debiteuren)        |                  |                       
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Figure       | <amount incl. VAT>  | <amount ex. VAT> | <VAT amount>

When I wrote this article, I found it hard to grasp that accounts receivable is a debet balance account: As a rule of thumb, debet balance accounts are for me like what you do with the stuff that you got on the left, and accounts receivable doesn't always look like that, at it is doesn't always look like I am doing something with it. However, it does make sense now: It's capital tied-up with your customers, and that's very real

It also does impact the balance sheet:

• Accounts receivable is a form of asset
• Through the equity equation, equity is affected: Equity = Assets -/- Liabilities → Equity increases.

Reveive payment

Simple: Just an exchange between two debet balance accounts:

Account kind | Debet - Balance     | Debet - Balance
Account      | Accounts receivable | Bank account
             |  (debiteuren)       |
-------------------------------------------------------                                   
Figure       | <-amount incl. VAT> | <amount incl. VAT>