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@HE VICAR - Assess Finance Charges
13.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Used to Calculate, Edit and Asses Finance Charges to customers
not up to date with payments for purchases. Default Finance
Charge Rate and Finance Charge Document Numbers are specified
and stored in the System Defaults Section of the system.
Upon entering the Assess Finance Charges Module the user is
presented with the Finance Charge Menu, consisting of the
following Items:
Assessing Finance Charges is performed by selecting:
G. Calculate Finance Chages
from the Main Program Menu. Once selected, the Following menu
will be displayed:
A ssess Fin. Charges
E dit List - Print
S earch/Del. Charges
P ost Charges
SELECTION DESCRIPTIONS:
13.1 ASSESS FINANCE CHARGES - Upon selecting this item, the
user is presented with the Assess Finance Charge Defaults
entry screen. The Entry screen consists of the follings entries:
Aging Date - This is the reference date used to
calculate how old a transaction is in days. The default
date is the last day of the previous month (the month for
which month end processing is being performed). e.g. for
sept. just ended, this date will be 09-30-90, the
statement date used of course would be 10-01-90.
Starting Customer Number - Default is: 0. Allows the
user to process finance charges for a specific range of
customer numbers beginning with the first customer at or
after this number.
Ending Customer Number - Default is: 65535. Allows the
user to process finance charges for a specific range of
customers in conjunction with the field above.
Days before Finance Charge - Default is the number of
days specified in the System Defaults Section. Any
transaciton with a date more than this many days before
the Aging date specified above will be totaled into the
past due amount used in calculating the finance charge
amount for the customer being processed.
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Assess Finance Charges - Continued.
Finance Charge Rate - Rate in decimal form. Default is
the rate specified in the System Defaults Section. This
field is here primarily to let the user know what the
rate is currently set at, and allow it to be temperarily
changed easily.
Minimum Finance Charge Amount - Default is the amount
specified in the System Defaults Section. This is the
minimum Finance Charge amount to be charged if the
customer is past due.
Assess Minimum - Defined in the System Defaults Section.
NO - If the Finance Charge calculated is greater than or
equal to the Amount specified above, then the finance
charge will be assessed.
YES - If the Finance Charge Calculated is Less than the
amount specified above then the amount assessed will be
the amount above, else the finance charge calculated will
be assessed.
Starting Finance Charge Doc. Number - Default is the
document number stored in the System Default Section.
This field is here for primarily informational reasons.
NOTE - This number is incremented for each finance charge
assessed. The next number to be used when calculations
are completed will be stored in the System Defaults
Section for use the next time the Calculate Finance
Charges is run.
Once the Entries on this screen are accepted, the program
will begin to process the transaction file beginning with
the first customer specified to the last customer
specified or the end of the file, whichever comes first.
If the customer is supposed to be assessed Finance
charges as defined in the customer Master File, then the
following process will begin, if NOT, the program will
proceed to the next customer on file.
Each transaction for a customer is checked to see if it
is older than the number of days specified above. If it
is, the transaction amount is added (for credits &
payments, amount is subtracted) to the total overdue
amount for the customer being processed. Upon reaching
the end of transactions for a customer, the total amount
overdue is multiplied by the interest rate.
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Assess Finance Charges - Continued.
The Charge calculated is then checked against the Minimum
finance charge, and if it meets the criteria specified
above, the "transaction" is entered into an edit file.
When the calculation process is complete, a message will
indicate if there were any finance charges created or
not.
If NO Finance charges were created, there is nothing else
to be performed in this module.
If Finance charges were created, proceed .....
13.2 EDIT LIST - PRINT - Print the Edit list out to the
screen or printer to review the finance charges that were
calculated. Check to see in any customers out-of-the-ordinary
received a finance charge that maybe they should not have
received due to a late payment.
NOTE - any payments that are recieved within the number of
days considered "CURRENT" will NOT be taken into
considerations when determining the over-due balance.
Therefore, if there are a $100.00 worth of invoices that are
over 45 days old for example, and a payment for $100.00 was
received for these invoices 25 days ago, the finance charge
would still be calculated on the $100.00 amount that was
over-due even though they were still paid.
It might be policy to still charge the finance charge
because they were still left for so long. Then again if
you do NOT want the charge, this is where you can
"Over-ride" the system and Delete the charge before
posting.
If there are any Changes or Deletions to be made, goto
the next section: Search/Delete Charges, if NOT, goto the
section: Post Charges below.
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13.3 SEARCH/DEL. CHARGES - If any of the charges need to be
edited or deleted, this is where it must be done. The entry
fields for finance charges are as follows:
Trans. Number - This is the Transaction number assigned
to this charge by the system. The starting number for
each batch is stored in the System Defaults Section.
Doc. Type - This the transaction Type designation as use
in the invoice entry section. This is NOT an editable field.
Document Date - Date that calculations were performed.
Customer Number - This number can be changed to a
different customer if needed, although not very likely.
Finance Charge - The Finance charge calculated for the
amount past due.
Past Due Amount - The total amount of the transactions
that were past-due. This is the amount that the Finance
Charge rate is multiplied against.
Apply To # - Here for strictly display purposes unless a
finance charge is being edited to "Cancel Out" a
previously assessed Finance Charge transaction.
NOTE - When done editing, it is a good idea to re-print the
edit list out to the screen or printer for review before
posting. Once OK, proceed to the next section: Post
Charges.
13.4 POST CHARGES - Performing this step is the same as
Posting Invoices and Cash Transcations. The transactions will
be placed into the Main Transaction file. When posting is
completed, a Posting Journal will be printed which should be
kept along with all other posting journals.