Hi Renee,
These are the questions I would ask if a client called me with this problem. Usually, it's me asking myself these questions. Here goes, in no particular order.
1. Is this an error you can reproduce (on purpose), or does it seem intermittent?
2. Does it happen no matter what account you put as the Finance Charge account?
3. Does it also happen in Fabrikam?
4. Does it happen from every workstation for every user (including 'sa')?
5. Have you run Check Links (old faithful) on the Account Master?
6. Do you have either the 'Finance Charge' account populated on the Customer Accounts window or the 'Finance Charge' account populated in the Sales series of the Company Posting Accounts window
7. If you put in a different account in Sales after the finance charge document has been created, and then post it. Does the account work?
8. Are any of the transactions imported? (had to ask)
9. Do you have any customizations or third party products that interact with the Receivables module? (had to ask this, too).
10. Did it ever work? If yes, what happened before it stopped working? (this should have been my first question)
11. Have you tried it using a new forms/reports dictionary (I know, this shouldn't affect anything like this, but I've been amazed in the past about the things that mess up if one of these dictionaries are corrupted).
12. Are you using any modified windows?
13. This one's a long shot, but it actually happened to me. If you look at the SQL tables after the Finance Charges are posted, is there any value in the account index field in the GL distribution work table?
That's probably enough for now.
Kind regards,
Leslie