Glossary

    A
  • Digital structure of an account identifier which complies with a specific standard.
  • Group of the bank accounts used in a ZBA transaction (Zero Balance Account).
  • Registry of all the operations performed by users.
  • Status of a transaction validated by the bank.
  • Electronic signature of bank files before their transfer.
  • Recalculation of the number of days and the interests amount according to the fixed calendar.
  • Data with the same nature grouped to obtain a global result in a statistics table.
  • Registry of all the detected incidents.
  • Optional piece of information used to group financial transactions by type.
  • Control function used to check the created and modified elements.
  • Amount of credit that a credit institution authorizes for investing.
  • Cash management strategy to centralize the financial flows of a group’s subsidiaries and to balance their accounts.
  • B
  • In Debts & Investments module, name of the portlet report presenting at date and by period the outstanding, the transaction’s interests and its amortizations.
  • Chronological and periodical billing record for bank and intercompany accounts.
  • Subsidiary of a bank for a geographic area.
  • Contract through which the delegator entrusts their power to the delegatee in order to carry out a specific task on their behalf.
  • Comparison of bank flows with G/L entries or forecasts and validation of their correspondences.
  • Chronological and periodical record of the money put into and removed from a bank account.
  • Type of report with a fixed form provided by default.
  • Financial instrument issued by a company which receives money as a loan on behalf of underwriters as a counterpart for securities issuance.
  • Situation in which the first period and the last period of a financial transaction do not correspond to the periodicity set by the contract, they are shorter and the calculation of their maturity values are modified accordingly.
  • Customizable combination of alphanumerical characters representing the assignment of flows to categories of activity.
  • C
  • To defer the final maturity of a financial transaction, which may result in the modification of its characteristics.
  • Movement of money in and out of a company.
  • Tool presenting figures and positions to define the amount of cash that a company has on its books at a specific point in time.
  • Set of elements which is used for breakdown or grouping flows, budget codes and transactions.
  • Upper limit.
  • Entity with legal rights and responsibilities aimed at operating a business. It is the main body of an organizational structure upon which one or more sites depend. Only companies can have an official accounting system.
  • Property or combination of properties connected with a logical operator which determines a particular result.
  • Status of a transaction whose amount is certain.
  • Double-entry table to establish an equivalence between two elements.
  • Function which gives the total number of non-null values from a set of data.
  • Function which gives the total number of non-null and unique values from a set of data.
  • Legal or physical entity that participates in a financial transaction.
  • Amount of credit that a credit institution authorizes for financing.
  • Medium of exchange in current use within a particular country.
  • Cut-off time for accessing the functions.
  • D
  • Graphical report of various customizable data and functions.
  • Function enabling the redefinition of the theoretic maturity date using the corresponding calendar.
  • A person who is entrusted the delegator's power so that he or she may carry out a specific task. The delegatee acts in the name and on behalf of the delegator.
  • A person transferring a power or a portion of his or her competency to a third person for the purpose of carrying out a specific task.
  • Type of data on which the display of information is based within a table.
  • Field which receives data the application does not need, it is used to avoid import errors.
  • E
  • For a financial transaction, payment of the outstanding principal amount, in whole or in part, before the final maturity.
  • Transaction nature standardized by ISO 20022 for electronic data exchanges.
  • Mechanism ensuring the integrity of a digital document and the authentication of its author.
  • Optional parameter which defines a situation as an automatic trigger for a specific action.
  • Exclusive approach of Sage XRT Solution which simplifies the input of a mandate and the direct debits it originates through a single form.
  • F
  • Function processing information to extract a smaller but relevant amount of data.
  • Periodic repayment on a loan whose principal amount is the same for each annuity.
  • Periodic repayment on a loan for which the sum of the interests and the principal is the same one.
  • Date of the variable rate used in the calculation of the interests which is different from the maturity date.
  • Lower limit.
  • Identifier of the transaction type.
  • Customizable collection of financial assets that can be linked to a currency, a company or a counterparty.
  • Transaction with an unsure amount. Status of such a transaction.
  • Data entry area with a set of fields to be completed.
  • G
  • Accounting record posted to a journal that transcribes a flow in the accounts of a company.
  • Table presenting a set of numerical data.
  • Type of report using the customized grids of the modules.
  • List of elements with a common characteristic.
  • I
  • Relating to business transactions which take place between two companies belonging to one organization.
  • Secure validation process used within a company as an optional step before the actual signature.
  • L
  • Element creating the logical relationship between two properties of a condition.
  • M
  • Authorization given by a payer consenting to the future debits of their account, retained by the creditor.
  • Positive or negative value to add to the original value to obtain the final value.
  • Basic component of the platform corresponding to one business function.
  • N
  • Unique flow grouping the main flow and the additional flows of a same transaction.
  • All the available funds on a given date.
  • O
  • Mandate which generates a single debit.
  • List of the performed tasks.
  • Graphic representation of the various companies in a group, and their mutual relations.
  • Total sum of money representing the assets and liabilities that a company owns or has borrowed at any given time. These may be account balances, stocks, financing and/or investments.
  • Outstanding balance of a financial transaction at a given moment.
  • P
  • Set of rules and standards which regulate the payment instruments.
  • Funds transfer to a third-party account.
  • Rhythm contractually defined for repaying part of the interests or of the borrowed principal until the extinction of the debt.
  • Rhythm contractually defined for maturities in a financial transaction.
  • Statistics tool that summarizes a data table and reorganizes its data using mathematical functions and dimensions.
  • Computer architecture hosting modules and services.
  • Customizable collection of financial assets.
  • Application component granting direct access to functions.
  • Type of report using a portlet component for a dynamic and customized result.
  • Interests paid at the end of the period.
  • Interests paid at the beginning of the period.
  • Set of views, filters and dashboards that can be assigned to all the users (public profile), a group of them (group profile) or only one (private profile).
  • Q
  • Stock exchange on which securities and currencies are bought and sold.
  • R
  • Mandate which can generate several direct debits.
  • Predefined template of report, base of the customized templates.
  • Document which displays and synthesizes all or part of the content of a database.
  • Monitoring and edition of data which enable the analysis of an activity.
  • Integration into the bank account analysis of the transactions whose value date is earlier than a given period.
  • S
  • Register of the payments to make or receive recorded at their maturity date.
  • Automated operation planned by the software user.
  • SEPA Creditor Identifier Mandatory piece of information for any creditor issuing SEPA Direct Debits, which represents a unique identification for each creditor.
  • Action of moving displayed graphical elements up, down, or across on a computer screen.
  • Type of liquid investment.
  • Set of access and action rights granted to a specific user type.
  • Acronym standing for Single Euro Payments Area.
  • Tool which presents bank files to validate.
  • Agreement between two parties to buy one currency against selling another currency at an agreed price for settlement on the spot date. The exchange rate at which the transaction is done is called the spot exchange rate. Also known as FX spot.
  • Information specifying the position of an element within a process.
  • Subdivision of the category.
  • Entry awaiting reconciliation.
  • T
  • Specific set of data and characteristics used as a base or reference.
  • Amount of the opening balance including the transactions that occurred since opening.
  • Date on which the bank records the transaction in its books.
  • Funds transfer between two accounts within a same company.
  • U
  • To change the transactions to reflect their most recent state.
  • Custom field you create to track information specific to certain subject areas.
  • List of all the access rights (see also: security policy) linked to users.
  • Coordinated Universal Time used as a reference in a global environment.
  • V
  • Date on which the transaction is taken into account in the balance.
  • Number of days between the transaction date and the value date.
  • Customizable display of organized information in various forms.
  • Function which displays reports.
  • W
  • Graphical component which optionally and dynamically presents specific data and proposes functions.
  • X
  • Validation process involving one or more users.