Bill

The Bill screen allows you to enter a manual bill. A bill records the debt owed by a client or employee for services rendered. Bill values are used to update the project, general ledger, and subsidiary ledgers.

 

See Also: For more information on how the billing process works, see Billing Overview.

General

In the General area, enter bill information.

Field Description
Source Company Enter or select an active company. This is the company responsible for the document. This company records and collects the receivables debt.
Posting Date Enter or select the posting date. This date is used to associate the document with a posting period. The posting date must allow this document type as an input and its posting period must be in an Open or Pending Close stage.
Receivable Account

Enter or select the account to use for receivable entries posted to the general ledger. Only active accounts where the subsidiary type is Intercompany Receivable, Project Receivable, or Other Receivable are available.

Receivable Organization

Enter or select the organization to use for receivable entries posted to the receivable account in the general and subsidiary ledgers. The organization must belong to the Source Company.

This is typically the Balance Sheet Organization defined for the Source Company.

  Retainage Account

Enter or select the account to use for retainage entries posted to the general ledger and subsidiaries. Only accounts with the Retainage option selected are available.

This field is available when the Receivable Account has a Project Receivable subsidiary type.

This field is required when there is a Retainage Amount.

  Suffix

Enter or select any active input document suffix that is available for the current document type. This can be used in reports to select or sort documents.

Document Number Enter a unique document number to identify this document.
This field automatically prepopulates and be read-only if an auto-counter has been defined for this type of document.
Document Date

Enter or select the document date. The default is the current date.

This date and the Client Payment Terms are used to determine the Bill due date.

EVC Type

Select if the bill is for an Employee or a Client.

When the Receivable Account has a Project Receivable subsidiary type, Client is selected.

Employee / Client

Enter or select the active employee or client associated with the bill. The selection in EVC Type defines if employees or clients are available in this field.

  Bill Routing

Enter or select the bill routing. The bill routing determines the client's mailing address used on the bill document.

This field is only available when the Client is selected in EVC Type.

When a bill is sent to an employee, an address is not displayed on the bill.

This field is required when the Receivable Account has a Project Receivable subsidiary type.

Currency

Enter or select the bill currency.

When the Receivable Account has a Project Receivable subsidiary type, the value defaults to the project currency and the field is read only.

When the Receivable Account does not have a Project Receivable subsidiary type, this defaults to the currency of the client or employee.

Bill Amount

Displays the total of: the total credit + total tax amounts. This value, less the retainage amount, will be posted as the debit value to the Receivable Account. The Retainage amount will be posted as debit to the Retainage Account.

  Correction

Select if this is a corrective entry to a previously posted bill. This allows you to enter the original bill number and bypass the duplicate bill number warning. If VAT is in use, the correction will also be posted to the VAT Detail table.

  Due Date Enter the date that the bill is due. This field is used for reporting purposes.
  Financial Description Enter text to further describe financial information about the line item beyond the typical posting data. If no description is entered, the Financial Description entered in the General area is used. This description is available in financial reporting.
  Original Bill for Correction If Correction is selected, enter or select the bill to correct. Only bills that have a Source Company, a receivable account, and a receivable organization that match the current bill can be selected.

Currency Exchange

The Currency Exchange area displays the default Currency Exchange information used in the currency conversion between Document Currency and Source Company Currency as well as fields which will allow for a one time exchange rate to be defined.

Req'd Field Description

Exchange Date

A required field that by default is set to the Document Date. This date can be changed to define a date other than the Document Date for which the currency conversion should be based.

The available dates are determined by the Financial Input Date Validation fields in Global Settings. For example, if the Days Before Current Date and Days After Current Date are both set to 3 and today's date is 5/31/2023, only 5/28/2023 - 6/3/2023 are available for selection from the calendar. Dates that fall outside of the validation range are unavailable.

Source Company Currency

Displays the currency code and name of the Source Company of the associated input document.

Initial Rate

The currency exchange rate which will be used to convert from Document Currency to Source Company Currency unless a Force Rate is entered.

Tolerance %

Displays the allowable percent for which the Initial Rate is capable of differing from a manually entered Force Rate.

 

Force

Denotes that a Force Rate is to be applied on the document and upon selection enables the Force Rate field.

 

Force Rate

An override currency exchange rate to be used in place of the Initial Rate for the conversion of Document Currency to Source Company Currency. This rate must be within the Tolerance % of the Source Company Currency.

Tax

In the Tax area, enter line items to record the tax that has been charged on the bill.

Field Description
  Tax Point Date

Enter or select the date of the supply of goods and services. This field is only available when the selected Source Company uses VAT as their tax system.

  Tax Line Items

The Tax Line Items include a list of the various taxes and their amounts that should be added to the bill:

  • Sequence: Displays the line item's sequence in the list.
  • Pretax Amount: Enter the amount on which the tax is calculated.
  • Tax Code: Enter or select the tax code, which contains the tax rates. A Source Company must be selected before a Tax Code can be selected. The Tax Code must match the tax system of the company.
  • Tax %: Enter the current tax percent. This defaults to the rate defined in the Tax code but can be changed.
  • Tax Amount: Enter the amount of tax that was charged on the bill. This field defaults to the calculated value: Pretax Amount x (Tax Percent / 100).
  • Post Tax Amount: Displays the amount, including tax that was charged on the bill. This value is calculated as: Pretax Amount + Tax Amount.

Project

In the Project area, enter any project-specific information associated with the bill. This area is required when the Receivable Account has a Project Receivable subsidiary type. This area is not available when the Receivable Account has an Intercompany Receivable subsidiary type.

Field Description
Project Enter or select an active project.
Bill Term Enter or select an active bill term. This determines the client's billing address and payment terms.
  Retainage Amount Enter the retainage amount.

Line Items

In the Line Items area, enter the accounts and if applicable, a project and task, where the detail bill values should be posted to a General Ledger account.

Field Description
Sequence Displays the line item's sequence in the list.
Transaction Date

Enter or select the transaction date. This date is used when the transaction is posted to the general ledger and subsidiaries. The default is the Document Date.

Company

Enter or select the company. The default is the Source Company.

Only the Source Company or active companies that are in an established intercompany relationship with the Source Company can be selected. Additionally, if a project is selected for the line item, only companies that are authorized to work on the project can be selected.

Account

Enter or select the account. Only active accounts that belong to the selected company and match the following criteria can be selected:

  • Accounts with an Asset account type and the subsidiary type set to None or Work in Progress and the posting type set to Non-Project.
  • Accounts with an Asset account type and the subsidiary type set to Intercompany Work in Progress
  • Accounts with an Expense account type and the posting type set to Non-Project.
  • Accounts with a Liability account type and the subsidiary type set to None.
  • Accounts with a Revenue account type.
Organization

Enter or select the organization. Only active organizations that belong to the company selected on the line item can be selected. Additionally, if a project is selected for the line item, only organizations that are authorized to work on the project can be selected.

  Project

Enter or select the project. This field is required when the selected line item Account has Non-Chargeable Task or a Work in Progress or an Intercompany Work in Progress subsidiary type.

When the line item Account has a Non-Chargeable Task, only projects with that allow Regular Expense can be selected.

Credit Amount Enter the credit amount.
  Financial Description

Enter text to further describe financial information about the line item beyond the typical posting data. If no description is entered, the Financial Description entered in the General area is used. This description is available in financial reporting.

  Project Description

Enter text to further describe project information about the line item beyond the typical posting data. This field is available only if the account subsidiary type is Work in Progress, or the account posting type is Chargeable or Non-Chargeable Task. This description is available in project reporting.

Totals

The Totals area displays the total values recorded on the bill.

  Field Description
Total Credit Amount Displays the total of the line item amounts.
  Total Tax Amount Displays the total of the tax line item amounts.
  Discrepancy Amount

Displays any discrepancy amount. If there is a discrepancy, the bill cannot be submitted.

This is calculated as: (Bill Amount + Retainage Amount) - (total value of Line Items + total value of Tax Line Items. )