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Feature · Finance

Finance

Keep ingredient purchases, batch costs and customer billing connected to each company’s books. Follow the actual source of an inventory, WIP, receivable or cash movement, with clear approval and reconciliation of the differences that need attention.

OverviewInvoices Awaiting Approval
Food & Beverage ERP · Finance

Invoices Awaiting Approval

Approval waits for the finance manager

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Invoice numberAccountDocument typeNet amountTax amountCurrency
INV-65418Bright Hollow CafesInvoice770540British pound
INV-20008Meadow Bend WholesaleCredit note860800Japanese yen
INV-55650Bright Hollow CafesInvoice300500Canadian dollar
INV-39758Meadow Bend WholesaleCredit note30200Japanese yen
INV-99349Northbank Fresh StoresInvoice890460Swiss franc
6 of 6 records
Bright Hollow CafesInvoices · INV-65418
Invoice
Net amount770
Tax amount540
CurrencyBritish pound
SnapshotSoup batch record, revision 3
StatusPending approval
Example screen with sample data

What you can do

Maintain an approved financial basis

Each legal company has its own chart, periods, currencies, posting rules and authority. Finance Manager independently approves protected standards, rates, taxes, bank details and financial policies. Shared customer or product names do not merge company ownership or permit a direct cross-company stock transfer.

Document currency, functional currency and the purpose-specific conversion remain distinct. Tax uses the configured supported treatment and actual taxable basis. Missing required cost, rate or tax evidence blocks the affected financial action; known zero values remain distinguishable from missing information.

Value receipts and batches once

Accepted supplier receipt tranches establish the reviewed inventory and goods-received accounting effect, including the signed difference between standard value and commercial receipt basis. Quality-held owned stock can retain value while remaining unavailable for use.

Actual ingredient issue moves carrying value from stock into exclusive batch WIP. Accepted work absorbs its declared labor and overhead basis once. Completion relieves attributable actual WIP into output at the frozen standard, with independent Finance Manager approval for every nonzero production variance.

Event Financial consequence
Accepted receipt Inventory, goods-received balance and applicable receipt variance
Actual production issue Inventory carrying moves into the batch’s WIP
Approved terminal completion Output standard value, actual WIP relief and signed variance
Quality release Eligibility changes without another inventory value
Actual customer handover Inventory issue and cost of goods sold
Approved invoice Receivable, revenue and applicable tax

Batch closure reconciles remaining sources and residuals. It cannot expense a completion variance again. Later quality loss, expiry loss and standard revaluation retain their different reasons and source effects.

Bill the delivered commitment

Accountant prepares invoices from actual eligible title-transferred quantities and accepted commercial allocations. Partial billing consumes remaining quantity, net value and tax without applying the same discount again.

Finance Manager independently approves every invoice and credit revision. Posting and actual customer transmission are separate events: an issued invoice can remain awaiting delivery evidence without becoming another invoice on retry.

Supplier bills match accepted, unreturned and unmatched receipt scope. The resulting payable clears the appropriate goods-received balance and records reviewed differences. A bill neither receives inventory again nor changes its quality status.

Reconcile cash with its source

Actual customer cash posts to the bank or cash account and an unapplied balance. Routine eligible allocation clears that balance against an invoice without another bank movement. Discount, write-off and other protected exceptions need their independent financial decision.

Supplier payment requests preserve their approved beneficiary, amount and currency. Actual settlement, authoritative rejection and uncertainty have different consequences. Uncertain outcomes retain their claims until reconciliation, preventing another instruction from spending the same source.

Applications compare the current functional carrying values of the cash and document sources. Any new exchange difference remains distinct from prior unrealized amounts reclassified on settlement. Partial applications allocate the exact source basis and final rounding remainder.

Resolve credits and returns without erasing history

Physical returns use their own custody and disposition evidence. Eligible customer restock restores the original issue-cost basis; supplier return removes the current carrying of the actual receipt descendants. Commercial credit and any price difference receive separate financial review.

Credits settle the eligible original debt before surplus becomes an available customer balance. A refund consumes its exact authorized funding source and actual settlement evidence. Historical cash applications stay intact when a credit funds the refund, and financial credits cannot release held goods.

Close from reconciled balances

Accountant prepares the period reconciliation across bank, open financial items, goods-received balances, stock, transit, WIP, held output, taxes and unresolved interface outcomes. Operational owners explain the remaining quantity and condition facts.

Finance Manager independently approves monetary revaluation and hard close after required evidence and dependencies are satisfied. Later reopening retains the prior close. One reviewed opening ledger and nonposting source detail establish cutover without replaying old receipts, batches or payments.

Receivables and Payables Aging and Local Financial Statements provide the financial view. Implementation describes the configuration and reconciled opening information needed to use it.

What it keeps track of

Data model
Entities
Separate legal books and stock ownership; shared masters do not consolidate balances.
Currencies
Currency precision and display rules.
Exchange rates
Immutable dated conversion evidence; no hidden fallback.
Accounting periods
Entity-specific fiscal periods and guarded close.
Chart of accounts
Entity ledger accounts, including controlled subledger accounts.
Tax codes
Configured additive tax treatment and evidence; no universal tax engine or filing claim.
Standard costs
Entity/product standard per base unit with immutable effective versions.
Posting profiles
Approved source-specific stock, production and trade posting mappings.
Invoices
Local customer debit/credit documents with mandatory independent Finance Manager approval.
Invoice lines
Exact unbilled title-transferred accepted price allocation or original credit scope.
Bills
Local supplier debit/credit documents with matching, carrying and separate settlement.
Bill lines
Supplier charges matched to accepted receipts, with explicit nonstock exceptions.
Cash receipts
Actual customer cash recognized once to unapplied liability before invoice allocation.
Cash applications
Cross-currency cash allocation consumes both receipt and invoice scope atomically.
Credit applications
Bounded customer/supplier credit allocation with retained surplus and reservations.
Refunds
Independent finance-authorized cash movement from exactly one available credit/unapplied source.
Finance corrections
Independent reviewed reversals, bank returns, write-offs and charges without editing posted history.
Bank accounts
Entity-owned bank currency balances and restricted destination data.
Bank statement lines
Actual external bank evidence, not inferred payment success.
Payment runs
Frozen payable settlement proposals and protected beneficiary snapshots.
Payments
One economic supplier disbursement with authoritative settlement/rejection/return evidence.
Payment allocations
Reserved bill and payment currency quantities with current-carrying settlement.
Revaluation runs
Delta remeasurement of entity monetary balances after reconciliation, not presentation consolidation.
Revaluation lines
One remaining monetary source, not both detail and its control total.
Journal entries
Balanced entity-functional journals with source identity and immutable postings.
Journal lines
Nonnegative debit/credit magnitudes, one side per line, balanced in functional precision.
Close tasks
Current source reconciliation evidence for an entity cutoff.

Who uses it

Permissions
Accountant
Prepares bills, invoices, cash applications, reconciliations and close work.
Finance Manager
Independently approves protected financial changes, every invoice and credit, nonzero production variances, required settlement exceptions and period close.
Production Manager
Purchasing Manager and Warehouse Manager explain their operating sources.
Quality Manager
Supplies current disposition evidence.
Admin
Configures scoped access without acquiring financial approval authority.

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