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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
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Invoices Awaiting Approval
Approval waits for the finance manager
| Invoice number | Account | Document type | Net amount | Tax amount | Currency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INV-65418 | Bright Hollow Cafes | Invoice | 770 | 540 | British pound | |
| INV-20008 | Meadow Bend Wholesale | Credit note | 860 | 800 | Japanese yen | |
| INV-55650 | Bright Hollow Cafes | Invoice | 300 | 500 | Canadian dollar | |
| INV-39758 | Meadow Bend Wholesale | Credit note | 30 | 200 | Japanese yen | |
| INV-99349 | Northbank Fresh Stores | Invoice | 890 | 460 | Swiss franc |
6 of 6 records
Bright Hollow CafesInvoices · INV-65418
InvoiceNet amount770
Tax amount540
CurrencyBritish pound
SnapshotSoup batch record, revision 3
StatusPending approval
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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