This tab provides general information on a bank payment: bank accounts of parties of the transaction, basis document, amount, date, and so forth.

If you are manually creating this payment, it is recommended that you first select Loan Issued in the Transaction Type field—this enables the fields appropriate for this transaction type.

On this tab, the following fields are required: Borrower, Borrower Bank Account, Cash Flow Item, Amount, Entity, and Bank Account.

The "Bank Payment (create)" form. The Main tab

In the Borrower field, specify a company (entity) to whom your entity lent a specific amount of money.

In the Borrower Bank Account field, select the bank account of the company to which they receive the borrowed funds.

To be able later to analyze the cash flows, in the Cash Flow Item field, specify the cash flow item associated with loans lent by your entity.

<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 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 Bank Account field shows the default bank account of the selected entity, however, you can select another bank account of the entity if needed. 

In the Amount field, specify the loan principal amount to be paid to the borrower. The default currency of the amount is the currency of the bank 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 text box, you can specify some additional information for this payment. 

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 post the document without closing it or Post and close to post and close the document.

For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.