In 2014, nearly one-half million
debit memos worth USD138 million were issued.
The idea of our formula is, of course, to obtain the dollar weighted days caused by each "plus" tug created by the application (invoices,
debit memos), and each "minus" tug (credit memos, payments).
What we tend to do, and I think we are getting away from it now, is just redisposition of our backlog of old
debit memos. While we are doing something about them, new ones are coming in for the same reason the old ones came in." Your other business units, not just credit and collections, need to come to this realization.
Those fines are referred to as
debit memos, and unfortunately there is a direct correlation between the rise of self-booked reservations and
debit memos created by government travelers violating the airline rules.
"You must stop using the ghost card immediately; you will probably have to refund all unused tickets charged to the card after the bankruptcy filing; you may have to refund months of fees; and worst of all, you do indeed face the risk of
debit memos for tickets covered by any unpaid credit card bills," Pestronk writes.
Speaking at a roundtable debate in Doha hosted by Arabian Travel News , agents revealed that they were regularly forced to pay up out of their own pay checks to make up the shortfall on "shortcollections" (if a client is quoted the wrong fare); or to pay off airline Agency
Debit Memos (ADMs).
Be sure to include any credit or
debit memos issued against an invoice to improve the success rate.
In addition to time and cost inefficiencies, such errors also resulted in airline
debit memos to ticket issuers, the company said.
The most important information for credit and collections are invoices,
debit memos, credit memos, payments, receipts, PODs, packing slips, sales orders, purchase orders, contracts, collections logs, deduction forms, dispute logs and write-off approvals.
Upon a more careful audit, one could have seen that
debit memos were phony (charged back discounts that customers earned), they recognized a trade discount immediately and not when earned and they discontinued aging the accounts payable.
The other is CashApply, which can apply cash received via lockbox, ACH' or EDI to a company's accounts receivable system and create
debit memos that are immediately passed through to DMS.