4. The Payment Process
(a) Invoice Authorisation
Invoices go directly to the Toontown offices. The reception staff matches the invoices to the yellow copy of the order. Any problems are referred to Daphne for resolution. There are very few occasions where invoices are sent directly to order council sites. If they are they forwarded to Toontown.
The Invoice and attached order are then sent to the ordering person for coding and signing to signify that the goods have been received and invoice details are correct. The invoice is counter signed by the manager of the ordering person as authorization for payment where the person does not have delegated authority.
Invoices are returned to Daphne and Velma who check that the ordering person and appropriate manager have signed the invoice. Daphne does not have a copy of the current delegation but says she is aware of the delegations various staff have. The check focusses on staff with smaller limits as these are the ones more likely to exceed their limit.
Daphne and Velma perform no check of coding to ensure that costs have been put into the appropriate expenditures codes but will query and coding that looks unusual. The system will however not accept invalid codes. It is the responsibility of the ordering officer and the authorizing manager to ensure that invoices are correctly coded.
It is also the responsibility of the authorizing person to check the invoice details but Daphne and Velma will check add a handwritten invoice or any that loo unusual. They will also check the total per invoice agrees to the amounts allocated to various codes by the authorizing person.
Management receives monthly financial reports that include a status report of cost codes to budget. It the manager believes there has been an error in coding they can get detailed printout from the system that shows the individual invoices put to each expenditure code.