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Stephanie Mottershead made this Freedom of Information request to Fylde Borough Council
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From: Stephanie Mottershead
12 April 2011
Dear Fylde Borough Council,
Please indicate:
_ where the Accounts Receivable team is based and if centralised?
_ which finance system/accounting software they use to process
customers invoices/payments?
_ Number of cash allocators and creditors employed full time to
reconcile cash and match payments to the sales ledger?
_ How many customers do you have?
_ How many payments do you receive per day?
_ volume of remittance slips received per day? Do they come in by
post? Are they scanned?
_ how many BACS payments do you receive per day?
_ how many cheque payments do you receive per day? Are the cheques
scanned?
_ How long does it take to clear a day’s cash?
Yours faithfully,
Stephanie Mottershead
From: Pangburn, Gary
Fylde Borough Council
14 April 2011
Dear Stephanie
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request and the information is
listed below in red:
_ where the Accounts Receivable team is based and if centralised?
Fylde Borough Council, Town Hall, centralised.
_ which finance system/accounting software they use to process
customers invoices/payments?
Civica Authority Financials
_ Number of cash allocators and creditors employed full time to
reconcile cash and match payments to the sales ledger?
4 full time staff
_ How many customers do you have?
Approx 4585
_ How many payments do you receive per day?
On average 333
_ volume of remittance slips received per day? Do they come in by
post? Are they scanned?
Approx 25, one third approx by post.
_ how many BACS payments do you receive per day?
Approx 145
_ how many cheque payments do you receive per day? Are the cheques
scanned?
Approx 42
_ How long does it take to clear a day's cash?
Approx 6 hours per day, cash only.
Kind regards
Gary Pangburn
Legal Officer
Fylde Borough Council
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