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Document Name
GART_DEFINITION_GH
In this step, you define your financial transactions and assign them to your product types. You also specify the considerable technical administrative functions that you can carry out with the product types you have defined.
Requirements
You have defined the product types you require in the step entitled Define product types.
You have defined limit product groups in Basic functions in the step entitled Limit management. This prerequisite is only necessary if you require an update in a limit product group.
Activities
Choose New entries to create your transaction type.
Enter the product type for which you want to define a transaction type. Enter a three-character alphanumeric name for the transaction type.
Enter a long name for your transaction type.
Assign your transaction type to a transaction category. In money market, the transaction categories available are: 100 Investment 200 Borrowing
Assign your transaction type to a processing category. The processing category determines which activity categories are scheduled for a transaction type and thus reflect the individual steps to be carried out for a transaction.
Assign your transaction type to a number range interval.
The 'automatic posting release' determines whether you want to use the 'release' function, or whether the flows generated by a transaction are to be posted without being released explicitly.
If you have defined a transaction type for deposits at notice, you have to make an entry in the 'cash flow' field under the heading 'deposit at notice'. Here, you enter the number of half-years for which you want the cash flow to be generated. This entry is also required for Cash Management, since the end of the investment period is never defined in the case of a deposit at notice.
For Commercial Paper, you have to define if the position is managed on the basis of the nominal value or the acquisition value. You can also make entries concerning rounding rules in the rounding category and rounding unit fields.
You can use the 'limit group' field for the purpose of updating limit management, if you want to fix a limit at product type or transaction type level.