This tab provides general information on a bank receipt which registers the funds received in a foreign currency from specific sources.

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

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

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

To be able later to analyze the cash flows, in the Cash Flow Item field, specify the cash flow item associated with currency purchases.

<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: 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. 

Optionally, in the Basis field  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 bank receipt. 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 receipt.

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 total amount, received in the currency of the bank account. 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 for this transaction.

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.

For the receipt, you can generate a document of the following types:

• Money Transfer: To transfer received funds to another bank or cash account.
• Event: To schedule an event regarding this document.

For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.