Automated Disbursements is the process that disburses payments that have been authorized in Accounts Payable. The Automated Disbursements process selects authorized payments, edits payments for validity, processes payment adjustments, groups payment data, formats payments, and posts payment transactions. In short, it is the process that takes payment data (posted in the form of commodity based payment requests (PRC, PRM etc.) and accounting based payment request documents (GAX, GAIP etc. ), and transforms this into a disbursement instrument (in the form of a check, warrant, or EFT record).
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