Glossary

If the terms are not right, things lose their order. (Confucius)

The WINPACCS glossary provides helpful explanations on the WINPACCS technical terms that are used most frequently.

This glossary / collection contains many important specialist terms in four languages and explains them within the framework of WINPACCS. It helps to quickly clarify terms spoken about and used in the multi-lingual environment of international development cooperation and how they are to be understood in the application.

External project

From the project accounting perspective, your own project is the one with the journals where you enter your postings. An external project is a different project of the same organisation whose accounting is to be kept separate from the accounting of your own project. It may occur that transactions have to be posted in the journals of your own project, although they concern a different external project and are not related to your project at all. In WINPACCS you can easily assign external projects to certain transactions – the posting itself is entered in a journal of your own project. However, you assign the voucher positions (such as costs or receivables) to an external project via the selection field.

Examples of posting to external projects:

  • There is only one bank account in the project country, which is used by all the projects in a country. Therefore, accounting is performed in a project for all the projects that use this bank account. The individual postings are, where appropriate, assigned to external projects.
  • A regional or country office pays the entire costs of all the projects in the region or country. In the accounts for this office, these costs are assigned to the individual external projects.
  • A particular project receives funds on-site specifically for forwarding to external projects.
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