The Payment Process (a) Invoice Authorisation Invoices go directly to the Toontown office. The reception staff match the invoices to the yellow copy order. Any are referred to Daphne for resolution, There are few occasions where invoices are sent directly to sites If they are the other council forwarded to Toontown The invoice and attached order are then sent to the ordering person coding and signing are correct. The invoice is to signify that the goods have been received and invoice d where counter signed by the manager of the ordering person as authorisation for payment the person does not have delegated authority Invoices are returned to Daphne or Velma who check that the ordering person current appropriate manager have signed the invoice. Daphne does not have of the she is of the various have. e check focuses on staff with smaller limits as these are the ones more likely to exceed their limit. perform no check of coding to ensure that costs have been put into the and The system appropriate expenditure codes but will query any coding that looks unusual. will however not accept invalid codes. It is the responsibility of the ordering officer and the authorising manager to ensure that invoices are correctly coded. lt is also the responsibility of the authorising person to check the invoice details b Daphne and Velma will check add a handwritten invoice or any that look unusual. They will also check the total per the invoice agrees to the amounts allocated to various codes by the authorising person Management receive monthly financial reports that include a status report of cost codes to budget. If the manager believes there has been an error in coding they can get a detailed printout from the system that shows the individual invoices put to each expenditure code (b) Invoice Processing Daphne inputs invoices into the system in batches. Velma processes Engineering Design Services invoices. The batches vary in size from 30-50 but do not generally exceed 50 as any input errors take too long to find. The invoices are sorted based on a combination of the following criteria: Posting Month Payment Date Invoices over S5k Power accounts are batched separately Prior to inputting a batch a control total is entered, and the month to which the invoices are to be posted. The batch cannot be posted until the total of the invoices entered agrees to the control total. Where there is a discrepancy the invoices are agreed to the input on screen and the change made. The creditor number is also written on the invoice and the invoice initialled to indicate it has been entered.