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Introduction.....................................................................................................................4
Open Issues......................................................................................................................9
Process Step Catalogue for PRC-02” Run merge duplicate customers program”
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Process Step Catalogue for PRC-13 “Print & Review reports & inquiries”........33
2. Customers will be defined in the system with their sites (addresses); these sites
or addresses are used for shipping and for billing as well. The customer must
have at least one site to be used for shipping & billing activities.
3. Under the same customer, there will be an ability to generate invoice for a
particular site and receive payment from another site “No Restrictions”.
Wholesale
Retail.
And each Transaction type linked with various sales order type grouping
these types.
AR Trade local
AR Trade Export
8. Each customer will be linked to his relevant receivable account in GL. The
receivable account will be linked at the customer address level, the link between
customers and receivable account should be done by finance department.
10. The purpose of tracking each product sales separately, there will be a link
between the sales revenue account and the product code; this link will be
defined at item level.
11. All types of invoices will be numbered automatically by the same sequence and
starting from number the last numbered.
Immediate
Week.
15 days.
Net30
45 Days.
13. Discount will be taken 1.5% when payment term is Net 30 and the
Payment is within one week from invoice issue date.
14. The types of taxes that are used is Sales Tax and will be defined twice one
for inclusive and another for exclusive and its source will be the
customer.
16. For the customers that are in the same time suppliers netting will be used
for settle balance in AR module with his payable balance.
17. In case of customer returns a credit memo transaction will be created and
applied to the original invoice to reduce the customer balance.
19. Different Payment methods are going to be defined to distinguish between Cash
receipts and checks receipts. The following payment methods will be defined:
Cash
Checks
Bank Transfer
20. Customer deposit will be used and could be partially applied on invoices.
21. The receipt type “Miscellaneous “will be used for recording receipts that has no
invoices or customers.
You can’t apply miscellaneous receipts to
customers or invoices.
22. Receipts are allowed in any foreign currency which means that the receipt
currency could be different from the invoice currency, in this case the system
calculate a cross currency gain or loss.
23. Once the checks are remitted to the bank, the remittance batch should be
recorded in the system to affect the “checks under collection” account.
24. The period end close performed will be “Temporary Close” and not permanent
close for the stability of the implementation.
25. Customer site will be considered as the activity for credit control purpose.
26. Credit control will be affected by Maximum days past due which means that
each customer has maximum days (e.g. 45 days) for his last unpaid invoice and
after these days order will be hold.
27. Customer Profile class will be defined as sector and customer category will be
used for sub sector.
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Customers: Standard
Type the customer name and select ‘Find’, if the customer exists, then the customer
data will be displayed.
After checking the customer existence, if does not exist then select ‘New’ and enter
the customer data.
Enter the customer site address by specifying the ‘Bill To’ & ‘Ship To’ addresses.
The customer number will be defined manually and NOT generated by the system
Every customer location is considered as separate account balance .
To make certain location as a default location to be used in invoice entry, check
‘Identifying Address’ check box.
Select profile class for the customer and you can override the data driven from the
profile class.
Profile class includes many default data that can be grouped together and then
assigned to the customer and this profile class includes as example the following
data:
1. Terms options
2. Receipt options
3. Credit options
4. Currency limits and amounts
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Customers: Standard
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Define the bank name and the institution type as ‘Bank’ also specifies the bank
address and bank branch.
Bank Accounts are shared between the AR and the AP module. Same bank
accounts can be used with both modules by defining each module options.
The relation between ‘Receipt Class’ and payment method is One to Many, which
means that more than one payment method can be attached with the same Receipt
Class.
From the Receipt Class window select the ‘Bank Accounts’ button and attach the
payment method to Bank Accounts.
The relation between ‘Payment Method’ and ‘Bank Accounts’ is One to Many,
which means that more than One bank account can be attached with the same
payment method.
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Select Discount Basis rule to specify the base used for discount calculation.
Enter the effective date and make sure to NOT to specify the current date, as
invoices entered with previous date will not be able to use this payment term.
Enter the sequence number, the relative amount and the due days and as
example to define payment term that specifies that 3% to be paid within 10
days and 2% within 30 days:
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
The Receipts window is used to enter new or query existing receipts. For each receipt, you
can see whether the receipt is identified and what portion of the receipt has been applied,
placed on– account, and left unapplied.
There are two types of receipts in Receivables:
Cash receipts: Received payment (such as cash or a check) from customers for goods or
services.
Receipts: Receipts
NOTES:
If the customer is not specified in the receipt window, then the receipt will be
unidentified and will update the unidentified receipts GL account
Unidentified receipts cannot be applied to invoices.
View the accounting lines for the receipt from the ‘Tool’ menu.
Print and review ‘Receipt Register’ report
1. Confirmed: For manual receipts this status indicates that the receipt belongs to a
receipt class that requires remittance.
2. Remitted: The receipt has been remitted (which means that the check has been sent
To enter receipt:
1. Enter receipt data including receipt number, date, GL date, currency, and amount
and payment method.
2. Payment method specifies the account to be updated, bank accounts and the receipt
status.
3. Enter customer name or number otherwise the receipt will be unidentified.
4. Select ‘Mass Apply’ to automatically apply the receipt on invoices, and the
remaining of the receipt will be on account.
5. To re-apply the receipt to another invoice, uncheck the check box of ‘Apply’ and
open a new line to select the correct transaction
Accounting Transactions
When the receipt is entered:
DR/ Cash
CR/ Receivable
DR/ Cash
DR/ Unapplied Cash
CR/ Unapplied Cash
CR/ Receivables
DR/Cash
CR/Unidentified
DR/ Confirmation
CR/ Receivables
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Check the issued voucher from the stores department and review the following :
Customer – Items – Quantity
Review the customer prices and check the price list to enter the customer item price.
Enter customer invoice using the navigation : Transactions: Transactions
1. Enter transaction date and transaction currency, the default currency is ‘SAR’ (the
functional currency)
3. Specify the GL date and the default GL date is the end of period for the last opened
period (Current)
4. Select the ‘Bill To’ and the ‘Bill To Location’, the default ‘ Bill To Location’ will be
automatically displayed (the location having ‘Primary Address’ check box is set to ‘Yes’.
5. Payment terms will be automatically displayed from the customer profile class and can be
overridden.
6. Transaction number will be automatically driven from the transaction source when saving the
transaction and cannot be changed.
7. Select the item and specify the quantity and unit price, the system will display item
total value.
Accounting Transactions
DR/ Receivables (specified in the customer site)
CR/ Revenue (specified in the item data)
CR/Freight (if Freight is applied)
NOTE:
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Check the returned voucher from the stores department and review the following :
Customer – Items – Quantity
A transaction must be complete before you can create a credit memo against it.
Use the transaction window to enter Credit Memo: Transactions: Transactions
Accounting Transactions
DR/ Revenue
CR/ Receivable
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
This option is used to cancel any customer invoice; there are 2 cases when canceling the
invoice:
If the invoice is not completed then select ‘Edit>Delete>Record’ and confirm the delete
option.
If the invoice is completed then follow the steps of entering a Credit Memo
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Accounting Entries:
DR/ Receivables
DR/ Adjustment Account (specified with the adjustment type defined in Receivable
Activities)
CR/ Receivables
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
The Remittance process is used to deposit checks in the bank for collection. When
the check is collected, the receipt status is ‘Cleared’ and the bank account increases
with the collected check.
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Receivable lets you view customer account information in a variety of ways. You
can view the total amount overdue for a customer or customers in the Account
Summary window.
You can view all transactions that are past due for a specific customer in the
Account Details window.
The Customer Accounts window displays a customer’s credit limit and available
credit if you set Display Currency to yes in the Find Customer Accounts window.
Receivable displays a customer’s current account balances in the functional currency
using the most recent exchange rate.
Use the navigation Reports: Accounting
Print and review transactions register reports and aging reports.
Use the navigation Collections: Customer Accounts
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
2. Choose a Posting Detail of Summary or Detail, detail means that a journal will be
created for every transaction, but summary means that one journal entry will be
created for each account.
3. Enter the GL Posted Date for the created journal in the GL, (the journal posting date
in GL)
ID Description
Policies/Procedures
Open and close accounting periods in your calendar to control the recording of
accounting information for these periods.
Receivables let you open future accounting periods while your current period is still
open.
Receivables also lets you reopen previously closed accounting periods and enter
receivables activities without transferring transactions to the general ledger when
you set your accounting periods to ’Future.’
Use the navigation Control: Accounting: Open/Close Periods