FIGURE 12-8
CUSTOMER COPY
A credit memo. (Courtesy of Arvin Industries
For Deposit Only" and verifies that the amount on each check agrees with the amount on the remittance advice. This clerk then prepares batch totals from the re-
mittance advices, including a total of all amounts received, a count of the remit-
tances, and perhaps a hash total of customer numbers. Another clerk enters the batch total and lists such remittance data as cash receipt amount, customer number, and sales invoice number for each receipt, using a preformatted cash receipts screen.
During this entry step, an edit program verifies that the entered data for each receipt are complete. It also performs edit checks on the entered data and lists errors on an exception and summary report. The edit program refers to the customer accounts receivable and open sales invoice files in performing certain programmed edit checks. However, it does not enter receipts data into these files. Instead, it writes receipts onto a temporary cash receipts disk file. In addition to errors, computed batch totals are included on the exception and summary report. If the total of all the individual amounts entered (as computed by the edit program) is equal to the precomputed batch total, the batch is accepted. (If not, the totals must be reconciled before further processing.) Then the program prints a remittance list (also called a prelist) in three copies.
An alternative means of receiving cash is through a lockbox collection system. Customers mail cash remittances to a post office box. The firm's bank opens the boxes daily, deposits the remittances to the firm's accounts, and prepares a detailed listing.