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On the menu Cash and Bank Management under Bank Accounts there is a designated Bank transfer function. A bank transfer function would support a very standard business process of transferring money from one bank account to another. Th is is why this type of function exists in most ERP solutions. However - This Finance and Operations bank transfer function has the following issues: 1) It does not open journal line with a default to a Bank transaction entry type but rather opens to the ledger transaction type. 2) This is just the General journal so there is no point in its existence in its current state. 3) It should support the standard business process of bank to bank transfers without having to route it via a temporary ledger account. In its current out of the box state - it prevents this standard process and therefore is not a bank transfer function as per the menu option Repro steps: Menu: Cash and Bank Management > Bank accounts > Bank transfers Create a jnl (and it is a general journal) Go to lines Aim to enter a bank transaction type in both the main and offset accounts The user is prevented from posting this type of entry Customers would like to have a designated Bank to Bank journal instead of using the General Ledger journal form to allow them to do a bank to bank transfer which is a standard business practice without having to use the General Ledger Journal form.

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M

I think this is a super useful idea. It should be possible to transfer money from bank account to bank in an easy manner, without using bridge accounts and without activating the more than one subledger transaction per voucher. What's more, I think this should also be possible for Intercompany so companies that have cash pooling or just want to transfer money from their bank accounts in one legal entity to their bank accounts in another legal entity could do so easily.

Category: Cash and bank management

M

I think most people would like more detailed option - allow only bank to bank but disallow all others, for example.

Category: Cash and bank management

M

Hi Marian,
There is a setting in the GL parameter called Allow multiple transactions within one voucher. When this is set to yes, bank to bank transfers work.
Note however that there is a risk in utilising this function in subledger reporting

Category: Cash and bank management

M

Hi Marian,
There is a setting in the GL parameter called Allow multiple transactions within one voucher. When this is set to yes, bank to bank transfers work.
Note however that there is a risk in utilising this function in subledger reporting

Category: Cash and bank management

M

We have observed another issue while using general journal i.e. While processing the journal financial dimensions of main account are defaulting on offset account. Whereas user expects default dimension set of offset bank account should default on offset account and the same needs to be considered for fixing

Category: Cash and bank management