6.2.3.1 Events and Accounting Entries for Discount Accrual

While defining the accounting entries for the Loans and Bills modules you must identify the events and accounting entries that are required for Discount Accrual fee accounting. One of these is the YTM based Discount Accrual (YACR) event.

It is meant to indicate the periodic Discount Accruals for the contract. The Accounting Roles that should be associated with the event YACR are

Table 6-2 Accounting Roles

Accounting Role Acquisition Type Product Type Description
EIMDISCRIA Discount Asset Effective Interest Based Discount To Be Accrued
EIMDISCINC Discount Asset Effective Interest Based Discount Accrued Till Date
EIMPREMPIA Premium Asset EIM Premium paid in advance
EIMPREMEXP Premium Asset EIM Premium Expense
EIMINTADJREC Par Asset EIM Interest Adjustment Receivable
EIMINTADJINC Par Asset EIM Interest Adjustment Income\
The Amount Tags for the YACR event:
Amount Tag Description
EIMDISC_ACCR Net Discount Accrual amount for the processing day
EIMDISC_ADJ Discount Accrual refund amount
EIMPREM_ACCR Net premium accrual amount for processing day
EIMINTADJ_ACCR Interest adjustment amount
EIMPREM_ADJ Premium accrual refund amount
The following entries should be maintained for the YACR event for assets (BC contracts):
Accounting Role Amount Tag Dr/Cr Indicator
EIMDISCRIA EIMDISC_ACCR Debit
EIMDISCINC EIMDISC_ACCR Credit
EIMDISCRIA EIMDISC_ADJ Debit
CUSTOMER EIMDISC_ADJ Credit
CUSTOMER EIMPREM_ADJ Debit
EIMPREMPIA EIMPREM_ADJ Credit
EIMINTADJREC EIMINTADJ_ACCR Debit
EIMINTADJINC EIMINTADJ_ACCR Credit
EIMPREMEXP EIMPREM_ACCR Debit
EIMPREMPIA EIMPREM_ACCR Credit

The account head mapped to the accounting role EIMDISCRIA and account heads mapped to the subsystem specific RIA (Received in Advance) accounting roles should be maintained as the same account.

For Discount Accrual, you must also maintain the following accounting set-up for the Charge Liquidation event. The charge liquidation event is the event in the life of a bill contract at which the charge is going to be levied; you would have specified this while building a charge class or while attaching a charge class to the product. This is in addition to the normal accounting set-up that you would define for the LIQD event.
Accounting Role Description
component_RIA* Charge amount Received in Advance
* The component is replaced by the appropriate Charge Rule
Amount Tag Description
component_DISC* Charge Amount to be discounted
component_PIA Charge amount paid in advance
* The component will be replaced by the appropriate Charge Rule. The following entries should be maintained for the charge liquidation event.
Accounting Role Amount Tag Dr/Cr
<Charge rule>_RIA <Charge rule>_DISC Credit
CUSTOMER <Charge rule>_DISC Debit
<Charge rule>_INC <Charge rule>_LIQD Credit
CUSTOMER <Charge rule>_LIQD Debit
<Charge rule>_PIA <Charge rule>_PREM Debit
CUSTOMER <Charge rule>_PREM Credit
Along with the normal accounting entry setup for the LIQD event, you must also maintain the following accounting entries:
Accounting Role Amount Tag Dr/Cr Indicator
EIMDISCRIA EIMDISC_ADJ Debit
CUSTOMER EIMDISC_ADJ Credit