12.1.5 Automatic Liquidation of Periodic Commission

The periodic commission components of an LC will be automatically liquidated, if the commission components fall due on or before the current system date. As a part of BOD, this function liquidates the commission components of the LC contracts, whose commission liquidation date is between the last working date and the current processing date.

The commission components that are liquidated by this function are posted to the accounts specified, in the settlements screen of the LC. This may be a customer’s account or a receivable account. On liquidation of the commission components of an LC by the function:
  • The necessary tax related entries associated with the liquidation will be passed
  • The necessary debit advices will be generated
  • The relevant accounting entries will be passed. Typically they would be
If collected in arrears:

Table 12-3 Accounting Entries

Role Role Description Amount Tag Dr/Cr
COMM_CUST_ACC Customer account Commission Dr.
CENC Commission Earned Not Collected Commission Cr.
If collected in arrears

Table 12-4 Accounting Entries

Role Role Description Amount Tag Dr/Cr
COMM_CUST_ACC Customer account Accrual amount Dr.
COMM_RIA Commission Received in Advance Accrual amount Cr.
As a part of EOD, this function liquidates the commission components of all the LC contracts, for which commission liquidation date falls between the current processing date and the next working date.

If the next working day happens to fall in the next month, this function will pick up only those contracts whose commission liquidation date, falls within the current processing month.