calculate how many days an invoice has been outstanding

[lauandorder]

Hello, I am wondering whether there is a formula I can use for my issue. I want to calculate how many days an invoice has been outstanding, but not all invoices have been paid. I have a date issues column and a date paid column, then a days outstanding column. I have a formula for "Date paid" minus "Date issued" for work out the days a paid invoice was outstanding, and a separate invoice of "Today" minus "Date issued" for invoices that are still outstanding. Is there any way to combine these, I am thinking something like =IF(date issued column contains a value, "date paid" minus "date issued", otherwise "today" minus "date issued"). Is that possible? Hope that makes sense!


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[Pete_UK]

It's often better to try something to see if it works, and if it doesn't then try to figure out why not. In your case I think you need to check if date paid contains a value, so you could do it like this:

=IF(date_issued="","",IF(date_paid="",TODAY()-date_issued,date_paid-date_issued))

put in the appropriate cell references, then copy down.

Hope this helps.

Pete

[bebo021999]

Assuming Date issues is in D column; Date paid is in E column; Days outstanding is in F column
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[lauandorder]

It worked! Genius! Thank you so much :D

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