Create Bank / Cash Details – A summary of the activity
This activity allows you to create bank / cash details for a company. A company can have many bank accounts for its business transactions like payments to suppliers or receipt of payments from customers. The receipt and payments can also be made using various file transfer modes like ESR, LSV and so on.
Every bank through which a company transacts is assigned a unique bank reference. The communication details of the bank can also be entered for a bank reference. Multiple bank account numbers can be created for a bank reference. Similarly, multiple bank codes can also be created for a bank account number. These bank codes would transact in the same currency as that of the bank account number.
These bank codes would be created for multiple “Posting” finance book. This would facilitate posting of transaction amounts in various bank codes that have been mapped to a bank account number. This helps in easy identification of the bank in the transaction during bank reconciliation. You can also set the credit limit, drawable limit for a bank account number.
This activity also allows you to define cash codes. The cash code is maintained in a currency. This cash code is mapped to a “Posting” finance book.
This activity also allows you to set various usages like employee receipts / payments, sundry receipts / payments, supplier receipts / payments, customer receipts / payment and so on for a bank code. You can also set similar usages for cash code. This activity also allows you to record your observations regarding the newly created bank accounts.
Getting familiar with the pages
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Create Bank |
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Create Cash Book Details |
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Create Usage Information |
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Create Bank Contact Details |
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Create File Transfer Details |
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Bank Usage Information |
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What you can do in this activity
Capturing bank details along with the swift and the Clearing number
Define bank as the foreign bank
Defining bank / cash account usage in various business component
Defining file transfer details for electronic payments
You can define the bank by providing a unique reference number and a bank code for each bank account number. You can capture various information during bank creation.
Go to “Create Bank” page.
Enter the unique reference number for the bank and its communication details.
Define the account details for the bank and create the bank.
The system creates the bank in “Fresh” status. The bank code will be in active status till the posting account is mapped to bank code. This mapping is done in the “Account Rule Definition” business component.
You can define various cash accounts and the currency in which it is transacting. You can define multiple cash accounts.
Go to “Create Cash Book Details” page.
Provide a unique number for the cash account, its currency and the finance book and create the cash account.
Capturing bank details along with the swift and the Clearing number
You can define the clearing number for carrying out the inter bank transaction and the swift number to transact with the international banks.
Go to “Create Bank” page.
Enter the bank clearing number and the swift number for the bank.
Define bank as the foreign bank
You can define the bank as the foreign bank.
Go to “Create Bank” page.
Specify the “Bank Type” field as the foreign bank and create the bank.
Defining bank / cash account usage in various business component
You can specify the usage of the bank and the cash account in various business components. The particular business component can use the bank or cash account only if it has been mapped.
Go to “Bank Usage Information” page to define the usage of bank account in various business component.
Go to “Cash Usage Information” page to defined the usage of cash account in various business component.
Defining file transfer details for electronic payments
You can capture the file transfer details for the electronic payments for the bank.
Go to “Create File Transfer Details” page.
Sepcify the file transfer pay mode. Enter the ESR details if the payment is through ESR and LSV details if the pay mode is through LSV payment.