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Trade receivables are inherently messy. Never is that more apparent than when posting receipts. Compared to consumer credit transactions, where there are very few questions regarding where and how a payment should be applied, business-to-business remittances are very often difficult to match to the accounts receivable database. The primary culprit is the habit of business customers to make adjustments to one or more of the invoices they are paying on a particular check. The result is usually a short payment. Besides payment deductions, there can also be problems matching reference numbers from the remittance advice to the accounts receivable detail. That problem is ...