Set up bank facilities and posting profiles for letters of guarantee
This task creates a Bank facility and posting profile that is needed to process a letter of guarantee.
This task uses the USMF demo company.
General ledger parameter
- Go to Cash and bank management > Setup > Cash and bank management parameters.
- Expand the Bank document section.
- Select the Enable letter of guarantee option.
- In the Transaction journal field, click the drop-down button to open the lookup.
- In the list, find and select the desired record.
- In the list, click the link in the selected row.
- Click the Number sequences tab.
- Define number sequence code for Letter of guarantee number and Letter of guarantee transaction references
- Click Save.
- Close the page.
Create Bank facility
- Go to Cash and bank management > Setup > Bank facilities.
- Click New.
- In the Facility group field, enter the bank facility group name for the letter of guarantee transaction.
- In the Description field, type a value.
- Click Save.
- Click the Facility types tab.
- Click New.
- In the Facility type field, enter the name of the bank facility type that is related to the bank facility agreement.
- In the Description field, type a value.
- In the Facility group field, click the drop-down button to open the lookup.
- In the list, find and select the desired record.
- In the list, click the link in the selected row.
- In the Facility nature field, select an option.
- Click Save.
- Close the page.
Bank posting profile
- Go to Cash and bank management > Setup > Bank documents posting profile.
- Click New.
- In the Account/Group number field, click the drop-down button to open the lookup.
- In the list, find and select the desired record.
- In the list, click the link in the selected row.
- In the Settle account field, select the main account for settlement.
- In the Charges account field, select the account for expense transactions.
- In the Margin account field, select the account for the margin transaction.
- In the Liquidation account field, select the liquidation account for the letter of guarantee transaction.
- Click Save.
- Close the page.