This tab provides general information on a cheque received: entity receiving the funds to its cash account, cash flow item, basis document, and amount.
If you are manually creating this document, it is recommended that you first select Other in the Transaction Type field—this enables the fields appropriate for this transaction type.
On this tab, the following fields are required: Employee, Cash Flow Item, Amount, Entity, Clearing Date, and Cheque No. 
The "Cheque Received (create)" form. The Main tab
In the Cash Flow Item field, specify the cash flow item to be able later analyze the cash flows.
<Auto> in the Number field indicates that a number to this document will be assigned automatically when you save the document. The From field is populated automatically with the current business date. You can select another date, if necessary.
In the Entity field, select an entity of your company for which this document is being prepared. The Entity field is available if the Multi-Company Accounting option is selected on: Administration > Settings> General Settings. You can select your personal default entity to appear in documents; for this, refer to to Personal Settings. If If you have not selected your default entity, the entity defined first will be used as the system default value.
The Basis field is auto-populated if this cheque received was created on the basis of a document of the following types: Money Transfer. If needed, you can manually select the basis document from the list of available documents (for this, click Show all from the drop-down list). Once the basis document is selected, the data is copied to this cheque received. If, after you edited the document, you want to cancel the edits, click the Fill in button – the details from the basis document will be copied to the document.
In the Clearing Date field, select the date starting which you can cash this check.
In the Cheque No. field, specify the number printed on the cheque.
In the Amount field, specify the cheque amount and in the adjacent field the currency of the cheque. The effective exchange rate for this currency with respect to the national currency is shown to the right of the field.
In the Comment text box, you can specify some additional information.
The toolbar buttons
After entering some data on the tab, click the Save button to save your work. After filling out all the tabs, click Post to save and post the document without closing it or Post and close to save, post and close the document.
To indicate that the posted cheque has been cleared, click Clear on the toolbar, select the clearing date and specify whether you have received cash or made a deposit; a cash or bank receipt will be generated automatically. For details, refer to Clearing a Cheque Received.
You can print the document for records; for this on the toolbar, click Print > Cheque Received Voucher.
If the cheque was voided, you can register its cancellation. For this, click Generate on the toolbar and select Cheque Cancellation.
For descriptions of other buttons, see see Document Toolbar.