Setup > Financials > Bad debt terms 

Use this function to create and manage bad debt terms to calculate those values. Terms are not tied to a specific management rule: Doubtful debts, Impairment or Write-offs. You can apply the same to term to multiple bad debts.

To create a term, you must have at least one line defined in the grid.

Prerequisites

SEEREFERTTO Refer to documentation Implementation

Screen management

Entry screen

Fields

The following fields are present on this tab :

Block number 1

Enter a unique code that you will use in Bad debt management.

Enter or select the legislation for the code. When applying the term in bad debts, the legislation for the code and the company must be the same.

To apply the same terms to multiple legislations, you need to create a term for each legislation.

  • Description (field DESAXX)

Enter a description for the code.

  • Short description (field SHOAXX)

Enter a short description for the code.

Grid

  • No. days late (field DEPDAY)

Enter the number of days between the open item accounting due date and the actual date.

This value cannot be zero and each successive line must have a greater number.

You cannot have two lines with the same value.

  • Percentage (field DEPRAT)

Enter a value between 1 and 100.

You cannot have two lines with the same value.

  • Description (field DEPRATDES)

You can enter a description for this line.

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Error messages

The only error messages are the generic ones.

Tables used

SEEREFERTTO Refer to documentation Implementation