This tab provides general information about a cash payment of salary to an employee: cash account of the entity that issued the payment, basis document, amount, date, and so forth.
First of all, select Salary in the Transaction Type field—this will make the fields that are appropriate for this transaction type available.
On this tab, the following fields are required: Employee, Cash Flow Item, Amount, Entity, and Cash Account.
The "Cash Payment (create)" form. The Main tab
In the Employee field, specify the employee who receives this cash as salary.
In the Cash Flow Item field, specify the cash flow item. It will help you analyze the cash flow by items in reports.
<Auto> in the Number field indicates that a number to this document will be assigned automatically when you save the document.
The Date 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 the following form: Administration > Settings > General Settings. You can select your personal default entity to appear in documents that you create; for this, refer to Personal Settings. 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 cash payment was created on the basis of a Cheque Issued or Payroll Sheet. 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 cash payment. 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 payment.
The Cash Account field shows the default cash account of the selected entity, however, you can select another cash account of the entity if needed.
The Amount field shows the cash amount (salary) to be paid to the employee from the entity's cash account. The default currency of the amount is the currency of the cash account from which the payment is issued. The effective exchange rate for the currency with respect to the national currency is shown to the right of the field.
In the Comment field you can specify some additional information about this document.