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Accounts Receivable Accountant
The Cash and Liquidity Management business scenario enables financial professionals at midsize companies to quickly and efficiently meet cash flow deadlines and achieve better transparency in managing the company's liquidity position. It comprises cash flow information from payables and receivables and tax, as well as payment and liquidity management, and streamlines your daily cash management cycle by automatically collecting and aggregating this information. This scenario covers the cash flow management cycle from the actual liquidity snapshot to forecasting, and analyzes steps through to optimized cash flow from money transfers or other cash flow impacting strategies.
The following business roles are involved in this scenario:
Accounts Receivable Accountant
The Cash and Liquidity Management business scenario enables financial professionals at midsize companies to quickly and efficiently meet cash flow deadlines and achieve better transparency in managing the company's liquidity position. It comprises cash flow information from payables and receivables and tax, as well as payment and liquidity management, and streamlines your daily cash management cycle by automatically collecting and aggregating this information. This scenario covers the cash flow management cycle from the actual liquidity snapshot to forecasting, and analyzes steps through to optimized cash flow from money transfers or other cash flow impacting strategies.
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Cash and Liquidity ManagementProcess Details: Processing Payables and Payments
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The Processing Payables and Payments business process enables the processing of outgoing payments initiated either internally by your company or externally by your suppliers.
Payments can be made manually or automatically via a payment run in which the system proposes the open items for payment. You then release the payments and the system posts them to accounting. You create the payment medium, either manually or as part of an automatic run. The standard work center provides checks, outgoing bank transfers, credit memos, as well as other country-specific payment methods. Once the payments have been debited from the bank account, the bank statement is entered in the system, in which it is uploaded electronically or entered manually, before being confirmed. If payments are initiated externally, the bank statement provides the notification that a payment has been made. The payments are matched in the system to the open invoices before being cleared.
Managing Petty Cash
Processing Receivables and Payments
Dunning Managing Cash
Performed byAccounts Payable Accountant
In the Work CentersPayablesPayment ManagementLiquidity Management
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See alsoPayment Allocation Quick GuideAllocate a Payment Manually
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Processing Payments Automatically
Processing Payments Manually with Bills of Exchange
Processing Payments Manually with Open Item Clearing
Processing Payments with Petty Cash
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The Processing Payables and Payments business process enables the processing of outgoing payments initiated either internally by your company or externally by your suppliers.
Payments can be made manually or automatically via a payment run in which the system proposes the open items for payment. You then release the payments and the system posts them to accounting. You create the payment medium, either manually or as part of an automatic run. The standard work center provides checks, outgoing bank transfers, credit memos, as well as other country-specific payment methods. Once the payments have been debited from the bank account, the bank statement is entered in the system, in which it is uploaded electronically or entered manually, before being confirmed. If payments are initiated externally, the bank statement provides the notification that a payment has been made. The payments are matched in the system to the open invoices before being cleared.
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Processing Payables and Payments
Process a bank statement
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Managing Petty Cash
Processing Receivables and Payments
Dunning Managing Cash
Performed byAccounts Payable Accountant
In the Work CentersPayablesPayment ManagementLiquidity Management
See alsoPayment Allocation Quick GuideAllocate a Payment Manually
Cash and Liquidity ManagementProcess Details: Managing Petty Cash
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Managing Petty Cash
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The Managing Petty Cash business process enables your company to enter all incoming and outgoing cash payments in the system. The petty cash fund always needs to contain sufficient cash for outgoing cash payments to be made. For this reason, it is possible to transfer cash between petty cash funds or between bank accounts and petty cash.
Processing Receivables and Payments
Dunning Managing Cash
Processing Payables and Payments
Performed byAccounts Payable Accountant
In the Work CentersPayment Management
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See alsoPayment Allocation Quick GuideAllocate a Payment Manually
Cash and Liquidity ManagementProcess Details: Processing Receivables and Payments
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Processing Receivables and Payments
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Performed byAccount Receivables Accountant
In the Work CentersReceivablesPayment ManagementLiquidity Management
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Process Description
The Processing Receivables and Payments business process enables the processing of incoming payments, initiated either internally by your company or externally by your customers. The process uses country-specific payment methods.
Payments can be made manually, or automatically via a payment run in which the system proposes open items for payment. You then release the payments and the system posts them to accounting. You create the payment medium, either manually or as part of an automatic run, using files for direct debit or credit card payments. It is also possible to upload credit card statements to pre-confirm payments. When the payments are credited to the company's bank account, the bank statement is entered in the system, either uploaded electronically or entered manually, before being confirmed. If payments are initiated externally by the customer, the bank statement provides notification of payment. The payments are matched in the system to the open invoices before being cleared.
Cash and Liquidity ManagementProcess Details: Processing Receivables and Payments
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The Processing Receivables and Payments business process enables the processing of incoming payments, initiated either internally by your company or externally by your customers. The process uses country-specific payment methods.
Payments can be made manually, or automatically via a payment run in which the system proposes open items for payment. You then release the payments and the system posts them to accounting. You create the payment medium, either manually or as part of an automatic run, using files for direct debit or credit card payments. It is also possible to upload credit card statements to pre-confirm payments. When the payments are credited to the company's bank account, the bank statement is entered in the system, either uploaded electronically or entered manually, before being confirmed. If payments are initiated externally by the customer, the bank statement provides notification of payment. The payments are matched in the system to the open invoices before being cleared.
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See alsoQuick Guide for Payment AllocationInternally Initiated Manual Outgoing Payments
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Processing Externally-Initiated Payments by Incoming Check
Processing Externally-Initiated Payments by Incoming Check with Lockbox
Processing Externally-Initiated Payments by Multiple Incoming Checks
Processing Incoming Payments by Bill of Exchange
Processing Incoming Payments with Petty Cash
Processing Internally-Initiated Payments by Credit Card
Processing Internally-Initiated Payments by Direct Debit
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Processing Receivables and Payments
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Processing Payables and Payments
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Performed byAccount Receivables Accountant
In the Work CentersReceivablesPayment ManagementLiquidity Management
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The Dunning business process covers the automatic creation of dunning proposals. Your company can edit and release dunning proposals to send payment reminders or dunning notices to customers for overdue payments.
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Processing Payables and Payments
Managing Petty Cash
Processing Receivables and Payments
Managing Cash
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Performed byAccount Receivables Accountant
In the Work CentersReceivablesPayment ManagementLiquidity Management
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The Managing Cash business process allows you to view the status of all payment processes in order to analyze your company's cash balances and determine the cash position in real time. This business process prepares information and creates planned items that are processed as liquidity forecast according to their expected value date. If necessary, your company can transfer funds between bank accounts. It is also possible to transfer funds between bank accounts of different companies in your group.
Performed byAccounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Accountant
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See alsoMonitoring Payment Allocation ProcessingPayment Monitor Quick Guide
For financial professionals at midsize companies who want to quickly and efficiently meet cash flow deadlines and achieve better transparency to manage the company’s liquidity position, this scenario streamlines the daily cash management cycle.
You can collect and aggregate liquidity information efficiently in a fast, streamlined, and automated fashion.
SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage Liquidity Management: from the actual liquidity snapshot, forecasting, and analyzing steps through to optimized cash flow from money transfers or other cash flow-impacting strategies.
Key Benefits
Liquidity Management provides the analytical framework for efficient financial value chain management including tools for bank balance reporting, liquidity monitoring, and optimizing liquidity positions.
Cash managers can easily determine, initiate, and execute required funds transfers to manage liquidity positions in terms of investing excess cash or funding liquidity shortages.
Automated processes for collecting information about account balances and transactions from banks, as well as internal information on collections, disbursements, and other financial activities are spread across different business units within the company.
Built-in analytics and reporting ensure a seamless consolidation of the liquidity information into today’s cash position as well as various forecast worksheets. Analytical tools support a comprehensive liquidity analysis, projecting cash shortages or surpluses for a variety of reporting criteria and timelines.
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