Controls the Interface to A/P and Income Statement Reporting

If the adjustment type is associated with a payment of money to a taxpayer (e.g. a refund), the adjustment type indicates such with a reference to an A/P request type.

When an adjustment that references an A/P request type is frozen, an A/P download request record is created. This record is the interface request to ask your A/P system to cut a check. This interface record is marked with a batch process ID and run number.

• The batch process ID is the process responsible for creating the flat file that contains check request that is interfaced to your account's payable system. The batch process ID is defined on Installation Options - Financial. The base package is supplied with a skeletal background process (referred to by the process ID of APDL) that must be populated with logic to format the records in the format compatible with your accounts payable system.

• The run number is the batch process ID's current run number.

If the resultant check needs to be reported for income tax purposes under a specific income statement category, the category is also specified on the adjustment type. The income statement category is in turn interfaced to the A/P system (the system does NOT manage income statement reporting).