Transaction Accounting Processing System and Approach
First Claim
1. In a transaction-processing environment for facilitating transactions involving merchant offerings among users including buyers and sellers, aspects of each transaction being characterized by at least one transaction-based document, a system to generate transaction data for a participating user'"'"'s chart of accounts, the system comprising:
- a data arrangement configured and arranged for storing transaction data based rules and a chart structure for each user'"'"'s chart of accounts; and
a transaction processor configured and arranged, for each participating user, to;
facilitate the loading and storing of transaction data based rules and general ledger (GL) codes for the chart structure in the data arrangement;
use stored transaction data based rules to identify GL codes that are valid for a particular period of time;
associate a particular set of transaction data based rules and a chart structure with a transaction based document for a transaction involving the user;
generate accounting data by applying the valid GL codes to transaction data in the transaction based document as a function of the associated transaction data based rules and chart structure; and
provide the generated accounting data for access by the user.
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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 generating transaction data using stored rules and identified valid accounting codes. Transaction information is processed as a function of the rules and generated transaction data (e.g., for classifying expenses under generated valid accounting codes). This approach involves, for example, identifying data based rules and valid accounting codes to use in processing received transaction information and in generating/applying accounting codes to the transaction information.
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1. In a transaction-processing environment for facilitating transactions involving merchant offerings among users including buyers and sellers, aspects of each transaction being characterized by at least one transaction-based document, a system to generate transaction data for a participating user'"'"'s chart of accounts, the system comprising:
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a data arrangement configured and arranged for storing transaction data based rules and a chart structure for each user'"'"'s chart of accounts; and a transaction processor configured and arranged, for each participating user, to; facilitate the loading and storing of transaction data based rules and general ledger (GL) codes for the chart structure in the data arrangement; use stored transaction data based rules to identify GL codes that are valid for a particular period of time; associate a particular set of transaction data based rules and a chart structure with a transaction based document for a transaction involving the user; generate accounting data by applying the valid GL codes to transaction data in the transaction based document as a function of the associated transaction data based rules and chart structure; and provide the generated accounting data for access by the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. 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 computer-based processing arrangement comprising:
a transaction processor programmed to; facilitate the loading and storing of transaction data based rules and the loading and storing of GL codes into a chart structure; execute general ledger (GL) assignment engine program functions to assign GL codes to transaction data as a function of the loaded and stored GL codes and the transaction data based rules associated with the accounting codes; and store the transaction data in the chart structure as a function of the assigned GL codes. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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