Financial Transaction - Main

Use Financial, Financial Transaction to update and maintain financial transaction information.

Note:

Navigating from source transactions. On the bill, payment, and adjustment maintenance pages, you can click the financial transaction go to button to transfer to this page.

Description of Page

Most of the attributes on this page are display-only. The following points describe the conditions under which certain fields may be modified:

The remainder of this section defines each of the fields on the page.

FT Type is the type of financial transaction. Values are: Adjustment, Adjustment Cancellation, Bill Segment, Bill Segment Cancellation, Pay Segment, and Pay Segment Cancellation. Click the go to button to view the originating transaction on the adjustment, bill, or payment page.

FT ID is the system-assigned, unique identifier of the financial transaction.

Obligation ID is the system-assigned, unique identifier of the obligation to which the financial transaction is linked.

Bill ID is the system-assigned, unique identifier of the bill to which the financial transaction is linked. This field is only populated after the FT is swept onto a bill (and this happens when the next bill is completed for the FT's account).

Sibling ID is the system-assigned, unique identifier of the source transaction associated with the FT.

Parent ID contains the following:

Group FT ID contains the unique identifier of the FT that represents the assessment header.

Create Date/Time are the date and time the FT was created.

Accounting Date is the accounting date that will be used by the general ledger to define the accounting period(s) into which the FT will be booked.

Division is the division associated with the FT. This comes from the division linked to the FT's obligation's obligation type.

GL Division is the GL division associated with the FT. This comes from the GL division linked to the FT's obligation's obligation type.

Show on Bill indicates if the FT will be shown on the taxpayer's bill. You should only turn this off for erroneous FTs that should not be shown to the taxpayer. For example, if you cancel / rebill a bill segment and you want to suppress the resultant FTs on the printed bill, turn this switch off.

New Charge indicates if the FT's charge only becomes effective when a subsequent process determines the FT's effective date and updates the record. This is only possible if your implementation has configured Effective Date to be optional using a feature configuration setting.

Not In Arrears indicates if the FT's financial impact has been canceled and therefore should not be considered for arrears purposes. This switch is turned on by the system when a FT's source transaction in canceled (both the original FT and the cancellation FT are marked as Not In Arrears).

Match Event ID is the system-assigned, unique identifier of the match event to which the financial transaction is linked. This field is only enabled for Open Item Accounts. Be aware that changing a financial transaction's match event can result in the balancing / unbalancing of the prior and newly referenced match events.

The Group FT ID is the identifier of the main tax liability assessment's FT. Refer to Group Financial Transactions for more information.

If this is a debit FT (an FT where the amount is greater than or equal to zero), the Debt Category identifies how this debit is categorized. If this is a credit FT, the debt category may be populated if the credit is associated with a certain category of debt. Refer to Debt Categories and their Priorities for more information about how this field is populated.

Note:

Required for base algorithms. The base P&I calculation algorithm and the base Determine Detailed Balance algorithm require that every debit financial transaction reference a debt category.

Define a Debt Category Priority if this credit financial transaction has a special credit allocation rule that is different from the default rule defined on the obligation type. Refer to Debt Categories and their Priorities for more information.

Correction causes the FT to be summarized in the correction area of the bill-at-a-glance. This is set by the system automatically when a bill segment is cancelled / rebilled after its parent bill is completed (i.e., sent to the taxpayer).

Redundant indicates if the FT's financial impact is considered irrelevant. This only happens after an FT has reached an age that is no longer relevant for aging purposes (e.g., when the FT is older than 120 days - or whatever age has been set as the Oldest Bucket Age on the Installation Options) and when its balance is exactly equal to zero with respect to other redundant FTs of the obligation.

Transferred Out is not used.

The Frozen switch is turned on when the FT has been frozen (i.e., posted to the obligation's payoff and/or current balances). If this switch is on, both Freeze Date/Time and Frozen By are populated.

Effective Date is the date the FT's debt is effective. It is an important date for penalty and interest calculations. The date is required unless your implementation has configured it to be optional using a feature configuration setting. Leaving the effective date blank is only possible if the "New Charge" box is checked. The expectation is that a subsequent process determines the correct effective date for the FT and sets it accordingly (and unchecks the "New Charge" box.)

Current Amount contains the FT's impact on the obligation's current amount.

Payoff Amount contains the FT's impact on the obligation's payoff amount.

Fastpath:

For more information, refer to Current Balance versus Payoff Balance.

Currency Code is the currency code associated with the FT's account.

GL Distribution Status defines the status of the FT in respect of its interface to the general ledger. When an FT is first created, its status is Pending. When an FT is frozen, this value is set to Generated. If you modify the GL details, the status becomes Modified. After it has been marked for interface to the general ledger by the GLS process, the status becomes Distributed.

GL Extract Dates display the Scheduled date that the GL details will be marked for interface to the general ledger. Note that this date is typically only set to a future date for FTs associated with automatic payments. Actual displays the date that the GL details were actually posted to the general ledger.

The grid at the bottom shows the FT's debits and credits (i.e., the detail journal lines). Debits are shown as positive amounts, credits are negative amounts. The following points describe rules governing if and how the information in the grid can be modified:

The following information is displayed:

Fastpath:

Refer to GLASSIGN - Assign GL Account Numbers To GL Details for more information about how the GL account is populated.

Note:

Tax reporting. It is important to note that a journal line's characteristic value is NOT interfaced to the GL. We have included this attribute on the journal line so that tax reporting can be performed from this system (tax reporting typically necessitates showing each taxing authority - the characteristic value - that participated in a given tax payable GL account).