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CLI Tab Contents
This document describes the main items that can be maintained within CLI.
Main Details Tab
This Tab contains four main blocks of information: Name and Addresses, Contact Numbers, Account Codes and Company Location. Important fields on this Tab are:
Privilege: This is an important aspect of the account. The privilege level enables/ disables users to view the account (0 = Highest level of security, 9 = Open to all users).
Head of Family: The client may have a parent company or be related to other companies you wish to group for credit control, risk analysis, interest calculations, etc. The Head of Family field establishes the grouping link between these accounts. A head account must have been created and been nominated Head of Family in the system before any links can be created. To nominate an account as Head of Family, its own Account Reference must be entered in the Head of Family field.
Company Location: Location codes for the client. Some of these fields may not be relevant for some accounts, in which case they can remain blank. Country codes are a standard list (this list is maintained in COUNTRIES, GF company).
Miscellaneous Tab
This Tab has several information blocks: alternative mailing Names and Addresses, Web account detail, account Flags, account default values for specific applications and various registration numbers/codes.
Limits Tab
Credit limits for physicals and trading accounts are defined here. This information is relevant to credit control and risk reporting. Different limits are set for trading accounts (F&O and FX) and for Bought/Sales Ledger accounts, therefore, different parts of the tab will be enabled according to the Account Reference extension and the Account Type.
Common Fields:
There are three common fields that are enabled for all client types: Payment Code, Payment Terms and Limits Currency. All the Physical Client's Limits fields and the Trading accounts fields will remain disabled until the Limits Currency field is completed.
Physical Client Limits:
These fields will only be enabled if the client has been set up as a Bought or Sales Ledger account. (.P and .S extension on Account Reference) and the limit currency has been entered. .
Terminal Clients Limits:
These limits only apply to trading type clients with a limit currency entered.
Balances Tab
The Balances Tab shows an on screen report of all the balances by currency of an account. These balances are the result of netting all posted documents to the account by currency. Drilling down is possible on the individual elements of the balances. The cursor will change to a magnifying glass icon where down drills are possible. Double clicking on a particular balance will lead you to the transactions related to that balance on the Transactions Tab of the CLI form. Here further drilling down is enabled per transaction.
Show Un-Posted Balances: This option shows the net total of entered, but not yet posted transactions (i.e. Held Authorised or Incomplete Documents) by currency.
Transactions Tab
The Transactions Tab holds all the information regarding posted transactions that have been entered on the account. There are three selection boxes on the top of the form that are used to narrow down the specific transactions to be listed. Having narrowed down the transactions to be listed, press the OK button to view the report. The report is shown in several columns that are user defined selecting form a large list of transaction details. The mouse icon whilst on the report will change to a magnifying glass icon, indicating that further drilling down is possible. To drill down on individual transactions double click on any of the elements of a transaction
Family Balances Tab
This Tab may only be activated if the account is a part of a credit control family. The Family Balances Tab shows a report with the balances of all the related accounts in the family. The screen shows all the family accounts and their currency balances, even if there is no account balance.
Notes
This tab allows for entry of any notes that you wish to keep to assist in the relationship with the client.
Contracts
This tab is only applicable to physicals trading accounts . You will be presented with an option to filter the TRADE tonnages for the account and then proceed with extraction/reporting. The resulting form/display can be column modified for your own preference using the standard technique of right mouse click, insert column etc.