Accounts Receivable Processes

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Stephanie Mottershead

Dear East Cambridgeshire District 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 “live” 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

foi, East Cambridgeshire District Council

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Kind Regards

FOI & EIR Administration
East Cambridgeshire District Council
Tel:01353 665555

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Linda Grinnell, East Cambridgeshire District Council

Dear Stephanie
Please find attached the response to your FOI request from East Cambridgeshire DC
Kind Regards
Linda

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Lynne Cuthbert, East Cambridgeshire District Council

Dear Ms Mottershead
Please see replies typed underneath each questions below.

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