434 • CHAPTER 12/THE REVENUE CYCLE
OMEGAS SPECIALTIES
Billing Date 03-03-99 Payment Due Date 04-03-99
Account No.
2396-852-078 Balance Due 280.59
Omega's Specialties
Paul Emerick PO Box 5566
1520 Evergreen Ave. Hayward, CA
Patagonia, AZ 85624 94540-5566
Amount Paid $
Detach and return this portion with your check
FIGURE 12-11 A remittance advice, which represents the return portion of a sales invoice or monthly statement.
Depositing Receipts One copy of the remittance list and the checks are delivered to the cashier, who compares and reconciles. She then enters checks received from sources other than the mail room via her terminal. When the cashier is satisfied that all checks are accounted for, she notifies the cash receipts program to print a daily deposit slip (in three copies) and a cash receipts transaction listing (journal) in two copies. At a designated time the cashier takes two copies of the deposit slip to the bank, together with all the checks. The bank returns the validated deposit slip to an accounting manager, who reconciles the slip with a copy of the cash receipts listing.
Posting Receipts Before updating the customer accounts, the accounts receivable clerk must enter needed corrections to cash receipts transactions listed on the exception and summary report. She may use a variety of references to make the corrections, including customer and sales printouts as well as on-line files. Hopefully, all corrections can be made during the day'the cash is received. If necessary, they can be carried over to the next day.
As the clerk enters the corrections via the accounting area terminal, they are edited by reference to the open sales invoice file. After all corrected transactions are validated, the updating run is performed. Direct posting is proposed, although the postinglean be done sequentially if the cash receipts are sorted in a separate run by customer numbers. In order to post each cash receipt, the customer number on the transaction is matched with the customer number in the customer accounts receivable file.
Infoage does not use the balance forward method, which applies any payment against the current outstanding balance. Instead, it employs the open invoice method, which applies each payment against a specific invoice. Therefore, the next step is to match the invoice number in the remittance record with an invoice in the open invoice file and to flag that invoice as paid. Other checks are made, such as to verify that a cash discount taken is within the discount period. Any discrepancies are written onto an errors and exceptions file, which is printed at the end of the run.
In the updating action, the application program credits the accounts receivable records of the remitting customers with the amounts paid and closes the sales invoices to the sales history file. In addition, the total of the amounts posted is com-
puted and written on the general ledger transaction summary file. This total amount will later be posted to the cash and accounts receivable control accounts. (Alterna-