Automated transaction accounting processing engine and approach
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1. A classification engine for processing transaction documents having line item accounting data, the classification engine comprising:
- an association processor arrangement configured and arranged, for each of a plurality of transaction parties, to access user profiles including information about each transaction party for controlling each transaction party'"'"'s access to the classification engine and for associating transaction documents with a particular transaction party, and associate transaction documents with a transaction party as a function of the user profiles and information in the transaction document; and
a classification processor configured and arranged, for each transaction document associated with a particular one of the transaction parties by the association processor arrangement, to retrieve classification rules for the particular transaction party as a function of the association of the transaction document with the particular transaction party, the classification rules including information for classifying accounting data for the particular transaction party, identify, in response to and as a function of the associated transaction document, line item accounting data, and assign an accounting code to the identified accounting data for each line item as a function of the classification rules.
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Abstract
Accounting data is classified to facilitate transaction processing and management. According to an example embodiment, data based rules are implemented for classifying transaction-related data into accounting categories. Accounting information is processed as a function of the data based rules and accordingly classified. This approach involves, for example, the identification of particular data based rules to apply to the accounting information, applying the rules and processing the information accordingly.
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1. A classification engine for processing transaction documents having line item accounting data, the classification engine comprising:
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an association processor arrangement configured and arranged, for each of a plurality of transaction parties, to access user profiles including information about each transaction party for controlling each transaction party'"'"'s access to the classification engine and for associating transaction documents with a particular transaction party, and associate transaction documents with a transaction party as a function of the user profiles and information in the transaction document; and
a classification processor configured and arranged, for each transaction document associated with a particular one of the transaction parties by the association processor arrangement, to retrieve classification rules for the particular transaction party as a function of the association of the transaction document with the particular transaction party, the classification rules including information for classifying accounting data for the particular transaction party, identify, in response to and as a function of the associated transaction document, line item accounting data, and assign an accounting code to the identified accounting data for each line item as a function of the classification rules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. In a transaction-processing environment for facilitating transactions involving merchant offerings among parties including buyers and sellers, aspects of each transaction bearing on a previously-provided agreement by the parties and being characterized by at least one transaction-based document, a general ledger assignment engine for classifying accounting data for implementation with a user'"'"'s general ledger chart of accounts, the general ledger assignment engine configured and arranged to, for a transaction party:
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facilitate the loading and storing of assignment rules for classifying accounting data into accounting categories in the transaction party'"'"'s general ledger chart of accounts;
assign accounting codes to transaction data bearing on the previously-provided agreement as a function of the loaded and stored assignment rules; and
store the transaction data under accounting categories in the transaction party'"'"'s general ledger chart of accounts as a function of the assigned accounting codes. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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