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Overview of the Financial Audit Process

The financial audit process determines:

1. What types of issues are valid to investigate, and at what point does an issue require action.

2. What issues exist.

3. What is the policy for the issues that exist.

Financial Issue Categories

Any number of issues can exist on a invoice or freight bill at the same time. These issues are divided into the following categories.

traxhelp00090000.gif Customer specific issues

traxhelp00090000.gif Vendor specific issues

traxhelp00090000.gif Entire freight bill or invoice issues

traxhelp00090000.gif Accessorial charge issues

traxhelp00090000.gif Freight charge issues

traxhelp00090000.gif Tax charge issues

traxhelp00090000.gif BOL charge issues

traxhelp00090000.gif BOL weight issues

Financial Action Policies

Every issue is related to a policy that governs the actions that should be taken when an issue is encountered. The possible policies are:

traxhelp00090000.gif Pay_Billed

traxhelp00090000.gif Pay_Rated

traxhelp00090000.gif Deny

traxhelp00090000.gif Exception

Financial Policy Application

Financial action policies are applied at the level of the issue. If an issue covers an entire freight bill (e.g. Not a company bill), then the policy is applied to the entire transaction. However, if an issue is related to only one line item or category of charge (e.g. accessorial not authorized, freight discount not provided), then the policy covers only that charge. As a result, it is possible to deny an accessorial but pay billed (the bill) for the freight bill.

Financial Policy Hierarchy

When conflicting policies exist, the following hierarchy is applied to determine which policy should take precedence over another.

1. Pay_Rated takes precedence over Pay_Billed.

2. Deny takes precedence over Pay_Rated.

3. Exception takes precedence over Deny.

4. Freight bill, invoice, BOL charge and BOL weight policies are applied to the total charge of the freight bill.

5. Accessorial policies are applied only to a specific accessorial charge (i.e. Deny means deny the accessorial charge, not the entire freight bill).

6. Freight charge policies only apply to the freight charge (i.e. Pay_Rated means pay the rated charge for the freight not pay the rated charge for other categories like accessorials).

7. Tax charge policies only apply to the tax charges on the freight bill.

8. Pay_Billed or Pay_Rated for a freight bill, invoice, BOL charge or BOL weight are superseded by the more specific policies related to accessorial, freight or tax charge issues.

9. Deny at a freight bill, invoice, BOL charge and BOL weight level takes precedence over accessorial, freight charge and tax policies.

10. Exception at any level for any issue will cause an exception to be generated for human review.

11. The customer and vendor specific issues do not have there own category of issue but generate the other categories of issue.

Related Topics

Financial Audit Classes Overview

Financial Issue Categories

Financial Action Policies

Financial Policy Application

Financial Policy Hierarchy

Policy Locations

Overriding the Universal Policy of Each Issue

FA_Policy Table Structure

Financial Audit Issue Variables

Carrier Audit Profile

Financial Audit Policy Classes

Execution Order of Classes

Universal FA_CODEs