Finance settles an open Guide Earnings Bill by choosing how much becomes cash liquidity for the guide and how much offsets eligible guide debt. Reimbursements remain in their separate approval and payment flow.
Track
Approval & settlement
Phase
Guide account
Starts with
Finance is preparing a full or partial settlement of an open Guide Earnings Bill.
Ends with
Cash paid, debt recovered, unpaid earnings, and remaining guide debt are separately explainable
Finance settles an open Guide Earnings Bill by choosing how much becomes cash liquidity for the guide and how much offsets eligible guide debt. Reimbursements remain in their separate approval and payment flow.
Finance is preparing a full or partial settlement of an open Guide Earnings Bill.
Match the amount, original currency, effective date, type, and note to the real event.
This is the key moment: use the source event and evidence; never manufacture an offset to make the total look right.
Approval, reimbursement, payment, adjustment, and reversal remain distinct and preserve history.
Reviews the account, supplies real field context, and avoids duplicate or compensating entries.
Reviews evidence, explains movements, and owns approvals, corrections, payouts, and settlement.
Season summary, settlement readiness, original-currency expenses, reimbursement status, paid-out total, and dated movements.
Why: understand what happened and what remains open
The evidence and movement history needed to review, approve, reimburse, correct, pay, or settle.
Why: preserve an explainable ledger
The Guide account is an explainable ledger, not cash on hand; source workflows prove events and finance owns approval and settlement.