Implementing Cloud Financials: From Empty Pod to Go-Live · Module 6 · Banks, Branches and Cash Management
The cash management model
Lesson 57 of 153 · 1 min
Three levels: bank → branch → bank account. Clients almost always model these wrong on the first attempt, because they think in terms of "our account at the bank" rather than three separate objects. The bank account is the important one. It carries the currency, the legal entity that owns it, the general ledger cash account, and its use assignments. What cash management actually does is narrower than people expect: it receives statements from the bank, matches them against transactions the system already knows about, and tells you what does not match. That is it. The value is entirely in the matching. Where it sits: Payables creates payments, Receivables creates receipts, and the bank reports what actually cleared. Cash Management is the referee. And the reconciliation payoff. An unreconciled item is a timing difference, an error, or fraud. Automation exists so that a human only ever looks at the third…
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