Find an Accounting Order

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Order Icon | Double-click the Order icon in the Accounting folder on the SICS desktop to see the Find: Accounting Order window. This is where you can search for, and create accounting orders. |

The Find Accounting Order window is divided into two tabs: Properties, where you input general information for your search, and Advanced, where you can further narrow your search by specifying more advanced search requirements.

On the Properties tab, you can input the following to do a search:

Type: Use the drop-down list to select the type of order. When you select None, you do not specify a type of order and you retrieve all types in your search results.

WS Status: Use the drop-down list to specify the status of the order you are looking for. The status can be Open, Closed, or Inactivated. If you select None in the drop-down list, you see open, closed and inactivated orders in your search results. The Status reflects the status on the worksheet connected to the Order. If the worksheets connected to an Order are open, this Order appears in the list when you select Open in the WS Status.

Order ID: If you know the ID number of the order you are looking for, type that in this field.

Title: If you know the title of the order you are looking for, you can type that in this field.

Click Find Now to activate your search, or, click the Advanced tab to input more specific search criteria.

On the Advanced tab you can enter the following:

Created Date From and To: You can enter the date that the order was created. You can specify it to one day by entering the same date in both the From and To fields, or you can enter a date range, in which case your search results show all orders created within that range.

Created By: If you know who created the order, you can use the drop-down list to select the name of that person.

Actual Run Date From and To: You can enter the date that the order was run. You can specify it to one day by entering the same date in both the From and To fields, or you can enter a date range, in which case your search results show all orders run within that range.

Actual Run By: If you know who ran the order, you can use the drop-down list to select that name of that person.

Planned Run Date From and To: You can enter the date that the order is planned run. You can specify it to one day by entering the same date in both the From and To fields, or you can enter a date range, in which case your search results show all orders planned run date within that range.

Planned Run By: If you know who entered the planned run date on the order, you can use the drop-down list to select that name of that person.

Main Base Company: This field is only enabled if the following Type of orders is given on the Properties tab: Retrocession Calculation, Retrocession Account or Retrocession Estimation Calculation.

You can enter a Base Company by writing the name in the input field or you can open the Find Business Partner to search for the wanted Base Companies and transfer this/these back to the Main Base Company field.

If values are found in the Main Base Company field the system will use this information to find the orders in the following way:

Compare this/these with the Base Company on the OCC/IP linked to the orders, and only list those orders where the given Main Base Company is marked as Main Base Company on the linked OCC/IP. As long as one of the linked OCC’s IPs has this BC marked as Main BC, then the order is listed.

Click Find Now to activate your search. You see the results in the display list at the bottom of the window. Each accounting order that appears in the list shows the following information in the display list: Order ID (a number which is automatically generated by SICS when an order is created), Type, Order Title, Worksheet Status (open, closed, inactivated or blank), Created Date, Created By, Actual Run Date, Actual Run By, Planned Run Date and Order Status.

All orders that are saved are given an Order ID so that they can be easily accessed later.

You can open an accounting order by selecting it in the list and selecting Properties from the pop-up menu, or by double-clicking the item in the list. You see the View Accounting Order window. You can also create or copy an accounting order from the pop-up menu.

The Find Account Order Display List: The system displays a list for you after you have clicked

Find Now in Find Account Order, you will see the following information for each found order: (For performance reason, the system does not show information in all columns immediately. To see all information, right-mouse click in the display list and select Retrieve Schedule Information… from the pop-up menu.

If you find it difficult to locate orders, using the standard SICS layout of the display list, there are many other ways you can search, sort or organize this information on. For more details, see Layout and Organization of Display Lists.

Display List Item Description

Order ID: Account Order Identifier. Unique number given by the system to identify the order.

Type The type of order, e.g. Retrocession Calculation Order or Unearned Premium Reserve Order.

Order Title The title of the order given by user that created this order.

Ws Status Most of the Account Orders creates worksheets the system will display the status of the created worksheet.

Created Date The date for when the order were created.

Created By The signature of the person that created the applicable order.

Actual Date: The date of the latest run date for the.

Actual By The signature of the person that were running the order.

Planned Run Date The date of when the order is planned to be run.

Order Status Some of the orders have different statuses like for e.g. Retrocession Calculation Order that can be run partially or finally, if the order has this status it will be displayed in this column.

Current Step If the order is part of a Scheduled Job, the system will display what is the current step for the Scheduled Job. E.g. Ready, Started, Stopped With Failure and Finished.

Job Activation If the order is part of a Scheduled Job, the system will display the current Job Activation code from the Scheduled Job. E.g. Requested, Active and Interrupted.

Time Stamp The system displays, date and time for when the Scheduled Job got the Current Job Step.

Workstation The identifier of e.g. PC or server that were running the Scheduled Job.

Is Scheduled This shows Yes in case the Account Order is part of a Scheduled Job else it does not display anything.