Distributing Non-Billed Budget Credit
Both the NBB Credit Transfer bill completion algorithm type and the Non-Billed Budget SA stop algorithm type supplied with the base package use the same method of distributing a credit from a Non-Billed Budget SA to the covered SAs. The following points describe how the credit is distributed:
- Covered SAs that are already in credit (due to some other circumstance, such as a cancellation and rebill) are excluded from the distribution.
- The distribution to each covered SA will not exceed its total payoff to ensure that none of the covered SAs have a credit balance.
- The credit is prorated over the covered SAs according to the relative payoff balances on each SA.
- The calculation of the payoff balance is adjusted to exclude the current balance to ensure that the credit is prorated over the debt covered by the budget, not any ad-hoc debt for the SA.
The current balance on covered SAs should always be zero. The only exception occurs if an adjustment has been added that directly affected the SA balance. In this case, the distribution assumes that the balance is outside the non-billed budget and needs to be paid separately.
- Any excess credit remains on the Non-Billed Budget SA until the next distribution takes place or until the Non-Billed Budget SA is stopped.
- The type of adjustments created is determined by the Adjustment Type (Xfer) specified on the Non-Billed Budget SA type.
The examples in the table below illustrate the points above.
|
NBB SA Credit |
SA 1 Payoff |
SA 1 Current |
SA 2 Payoff |
SA 2 Current |
SA 1 Credit Xfer |
SA 2 Credit Xfer |
|
-100.00 |
-100.00 |
0.00 |
-200.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
-100.00 |
150.00 |
0.00 |
-50.00 |
0.00 |
-100.00 |
0.00 |
|
-300.00 |
150.00 |
0.00 |
50.00 |
0.00 |
-150.00 |
-50.00 |
|
-100.00 |
150.00 |
0.00 |
250.00 |
0.00 |
-37.50 |
-62.50 |
|
-100.00 |
150.00 |
0.00 |
250.00 |
50.00 |
-42.86 |
-57.14 |
The first example above shows that covered SAs with a credit balance are excluded from the distribution. Any excess credit remains on the Non-Billed Budget.
The second example shows that one covered SA has a credit balance, so the entire credit is distributed to the remaining SA.
The third example shows the amount distributed to a covered SA does not exceed its payoff balance. Again, any excess credit remains on the Non-Billed Budget SA.
The fourth example illustrates how the credit is prorated based on the payoff balance. The fifth example illustrates the same prorating but with a current balance on one of the SAs (SA 2). (Remember that the prorating excludes any current balance.)
The prorated amount is calculated by subtracting the current balance from the payoff balance then multiplying the result by the distribution amount and dividing by the total payoff owing of all covered SAs.