Customer Credit and Outstanding Obligation
What must remain represented when a customer receives value before fully settling a transaction?
What must be trueWhen a customer receives value before fully settling the transaction, the enterprise must represent the outstanding obligation.
A business may deliver value before the customer has fully settled. The delivered value and the outstanding obligation are related but distinct states.
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Why does this matter?
The business must establish a clear understanding of outstanding customer obligations to ensure proper control and accountability.
What must be true?
When a customer receives value before fully settling the transaction, the enterprise must represent the outstanding obligation.
This is not a requirement of one particular software system. A business still has to establish itself whether it is using paper records, spreadsheets or a business system.
See what this looks like in practice
The evidence follows a sale into an unsettled customer obligation that remains represented after value has been delivered.
Delivered value and settlement are distinct states connected by an outstanding customer obligation.
The obligation remains after the saleDelivered value and settlement are distinct states connected by an outstanding customer obligation.- the sale can be complete while payment remains outstanding
- the obligation belongs to a customer relationship
- settlement is a later state rather than an assumption
A completed sale and a settled obligation are not necessarily the same business state.
Value delivered and payment settled can remain distinct business states.
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Where this research connects
FMCG & Retail
Businesses that source, move, stock, process and sell everyday goods.
Explore Research bodyFMCG & Retail Research
Ithoka's FMCG research examines how businesses establish, manage and control the work involved in moving goods from supply to sale.
Explore SystemIthoka Business Suite
Technology for connecting business processes, records and decisions across an operation.
Explore TechnologyBusiness Automation
Technology for connecting business processes, records and decisions so work can be carried out more consistently.
Explore Business environmentHorizon Group
A multi-branch FMCG and retail business environment connecting its people, locations, products, stock and operations.
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