Patent ID: 8706578
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to: store in a memory of a computer system a correspondence between a plurality of account symbols and a plurality of statutory defined general ledger accounts; receive at a receiving computer application an accounting entry generated by a sending computer application, the accounting entry including an account symbol from the plurality of account symbols, wherein the accounting entry is generated based on a current configuration of a financial logic mechanism at the sending computer application; at the receiving computer application, replace the account symbol in the accounting entry with a general ledger account from the plurality of general ledger accounts based on the stored correspondence; update in the memory of the computer system one or more general ledger accounts of the plurality of general ledger accounts corresponding to the plurality of account symbols; receive at the receiving computer application a new accounting entry including the account symbol from the plurality of account symbols; at the receiving computer application, replace the account symbol in the new accounting entry with an updated general ledger account from the one or more updated general ledger accounts; and generate at least one electronic financial document at the receiving computer application based on the accounting entry and the new accounting entry, and further based on a current configuration of a financial logic mechanism at the receiving application.