Calculating Copyrights
This routine calculates value of payments to be made to copyright owners.
This process uses the rules defined in the contract, analyzing the quantity ranges and their percentages for calculation, price used and taxes, etc. It only runs if there is no bills for the author in the same period.
To calculate copyrights the system uses outflow invoices for the month entered, sales and processing returns and sublicensing transactions, like inventory adjustments, production, losses, transfers (copyrights for the latter are not calculated by only updating the quantities.
Transaction types must be defined in Types of Inflow and Outflow File (field Movement Types), according to parameters that configure these transactions:
Calculated data are stored in copyright assessment files, assessment items and accrued quantities for the month.
The process update the dates for the next rendering of accounts and the sales accrued quantities in the Master Product file.
Once activated, this routine deletes and recalculates all data previously calculated for the reference month/year.
Procedures
To run the copyright calculation routine:
| 1. | In Copyright Calculation, the system displays the routine description screen. |
| 2. | Click Parameters. |
The system displays a window with the parameters regarding the process.
| 3. | Configure the parameters according to the field's help instructions. |
| 4. | Check the data and confirm it. |
A confirmation window for Copyright Calculation processing is displayed.
| 5. | Confirm it for the system to calculate. |
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