Acquisitions

Overview

Acquisition screen Contains the Acquisition Information for several Asset Items or Inventory Items acquired by the same method and corresponding document, usually a Donation or a Purchase Order, however more Acquisition Types might be available.

 

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Acquisition screen Fields

Field

Description

ID

Unique identification code of acquisition entered either manually or system generated based on parameter setting.

Reference Number

Reference number depending on the acquisition type is entered is in this field manually.

Acquisition Type

Acquisition type is to selected from the available option. Probable values are: Journal Voucher, Expense Voucher, not applicable, etc.

Acquisition Date

This is the date when the items were acquired. If the acquisition information is generated by the GRN, then the date must be equal to the purchase order date.

Reception Date

This is the date when the items were received. If the acquisition information is generated by GRN, then receipt date must be equal to GRN date.

Acquisition Entity Type

Entity associated with the Acquisition Type, but if the acquisition type is not being managed by the FreeBalance Accountability Platform, this value must be 'not applicable'.

Acquisition Information Source

User will select acquisition source from the drop-down list. The source from where the acquisition information is generated gets selected in this field. The possible values are: GRN, Web service, Manually entered and others.

Is Acquisition Referenced By Financial

The default value is false. It is read only for the user. It's value is set to true by system when Asset item financial transaction is approved.

Description

A description of the acquisition information, this is only applicable for manually entered acquisition information instances.

Details

This attribute may contain information about the acquisition conditions, e.g. donation restrictions, sole destination of assets, etc.

Institution TabUser can attach one or more institution with the acquisition.