Bill Segment - Calc Lines

The Calc Lines page contains information about the bill calculation lines produced when the system generates the bill segment. These lines are the source of the details printed on the customer's bill. Open Billing Management, Bill Segment, Calc Lines to view this information.

Description of Page

Bill Seg Info is a concatenation of the bill segment's division, contract type, status, bill period and amount. Bill Segment ID is the system-assigned unique identifier of the bill segment.

The Bill Segment Header (Bill Seg Hdr) scroll contains one entry for every version of the rate that was used to calculate the bill segment's lines. Because most bill segments use a single rate version, you typically only see one entry in the scroll.

The following information is displayed above the bill calculation line grid.

• Sequence will be 1 unless multiple versions of the rate were in effect during the bill period. If there was more than one effective rate version, there will be a separate set of calc lines for each version applied. The lines that apply to the first part of the bill period would have a Sequence of 1, the lines for the next part of the bill period would have a Sequence of 2 and so on.
• Start Date - End Date is the portion of the bill segment period that the calculation details apply.
• Amount is the sum of the bill calculation lines in the grid.
• Billable Charge ID - Indicates the billable charge for which the bill segment is generated. In addition, this field has a context menu which helps in navigating to the Billable Charge screen.
• Desc on Bill is summary information about the calculation details that will be printed on the customer's bill.
• Rate Version is the ID of the rate version and its effective date. This information only appears if a rate was used to calculate the charges.

The calculation lines grid is a snapshot of how the system calculated the bill segment amount. One row exists for every calculation involved in this process. This information is for audit purposes only and may not be modified. The following information is displayed in the grid:

• An extra column with a drill down button appears if the bill calculation line is the result of a variance parameter pricing rate component that contains an audit algorithm.
• A drill down button appears in the Calc Line Char column if the bill calculation line has characteristics. The Char column only appears if at least one of the calculation lines has a characteristic.
• Sequence is the system-assigned unique identifier of the calculation detail row.
• Description on Bill is the information about the bill line that appears on the customer's bill.
• Calculated Amount is the calculated amount associated with the bill line.
• The Print switch controls whether information about this line will print on the customer's bill.
• The Appears in Summary switch defines if this line's amount also appears on a summary line. This switch plays a part at bill print time - those lines that appear in a summary print in the left dollar column, those that don't appear in a summary print in the right dollar column.
• The system automatically populates this switch as follows:
  • Bill segments created by applying a rate have this switch turned on if the corresponding rate component is summarized on a summary rate component
  • Bill segments created from billable charges use the value of this switch as defined on the billable charge. Refer to Maintaining Billable Charges for more information.
• Unit of Measure (UOM) is the unit of measure of the service quantity priced on the calculation line.
• Variance Parameter of the service quantity priced on the calculation line.
• SQI is the service quantity identifier of the service quantity priced on the calculation line.
• Billable Service Quantity is the service quantity priced on the calculation line. This quantity will be different from the measured product's consumption is there are SQ rules or register rules in effect.
• Base Amount is used by calculation lines (e.g. taxes) that are cross-referenced to other calculation lines and whose value(s), therefore, depend on the amounts calculated by those other lines. The Base Amount shows the total amount derived from the cross-referenced line(s) that the current line then used to calculate its billed amount.
• Rate Comp onent Seq uencerefers to the sequence number of the rate component on the applicable rate version that was used to calculate the line.
• Measures Peak Qty is checked if the UOM priced on the calculation line is used to measure a peak quantity.
• Exempt Amount is the amount of the calculated charge that the customer doesn't have to pay because they are tax exempt.
• Distribution Code is the distribution code associated with the calculation line. This distribution code is used to build the general ledger details on the bill segment's financial transaction.
• Description describes the characteristic value that was used when the line's amount was calculated. This information is only displayed if the line was calculated using a bill factor (because only bill factors use characteristic values). Refer to An Illustration Of A Bill Factor And Its Characteristics for more information.