Accounts Receivable Processes

The request was successful.

Stephanie Mottershead

Dear Basildon 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

Basildon Borough Council

2 Attachments

Dear Ms Mottershead

Please find attached acknowledgement to your recent request made for
information under the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours Sincerely
Peter Samuels
Service Advice Officer

Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this
e-mail

This message does not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies or
procedures of Basildon Borough Council or its partners and does not give
rise to any contract, undertaking or agreement. eMail is not a secure form
of communication. Every effort has been made to ensure that this message
has been correctly addressed. It and any associated file(s) may contain
privileged or confidential information or details intended only for the
sender and the intended recipient. If this message is received by anyone
other than the intended recipient please delete the message and any
associated file(s) and destroy any printed copy. Please notify the sender
by a return e-mail or telephone and make them aware that the message has
been received by someone other than the intended recipient. If the subject
line of this email begins PER: then the email is a personal one and is the
personal responsibility of the sender and not Basildon Borough Council or
its partners.

Basildon Borough Council

3 Attachments

Dear Ms Mottershead

Please find attached response to your recent request made for information
under the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours Sincerely
Peter Samuels
Service Advice Officer

Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this
e-mail

This message does not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies or
procedures of Basildon Borough Council or its partners and does not give
rise to any contract, undertaking or agreement. eMail is not a secure form
of communication. Every effort has been made to ensure that this message
has been correctly addressed. It and any associated file(s) may contain
privileged or confidential information or details intended only for the
sender and the intended recipient. If this message is received by anyone
other than the intended recipient please delete the message and any
associated file(s) and destroy any printed copy. Please notify the sender
by a return e-mail or telephone and make them aware that the message has
been received by someone other than the intended recipient. If the subject
line of this email begins PER: then the email is a personal one and is the
personal responsibility of the sender and not Basildon Borough Council or
its partners.

Stephanie Mottershead

Dear Basildon District Council,

Many thanks for the fast response and great answers!

Yours faithfully,

Stephanie Mottershead