The financial integration point between the application and an ERP financial system is the instruction line item. A financial instruction line item (ILI) is the lowest level of financial detail within the application. At least one instruction line item is generated for every financial process that occurs.
Instruction line items for a case are created when financial components are processed. Whereas a financial component is a schedule to pay or bill, an instruction line item for a case is an instance of that schedule, i.e., a payment or bill.
Note that financial instruction line items can also be created outside of case processing. For example, financial instruction line items are created when a deduction is allocated toward a liability, when a manual payment is captured, when a liability is written off etc.
Instruction line items contain information on a credit or debit amount. This amount is applied to a participant or case account during a specific cover period. For example, an instruction line item might indicate that John Smith was paid $25 for the cover period from January 1st to January 7th. This means that on January 1st, his account was credited $25.
All instruction line items also have a status, i.e., unprocessed, transferred or processed, and an outstanding amount, i.e., the amount still available to be credited or debited. The outstanding amount of the instruction line item relates to its status. An unprocessed or transferred instruction line item has an outstanding amount equal to its full credit or debit amount. A processed instruction line item may have an unprocessed amount of zero. Note, however, that an instruction line item may not be processed all at once, so that its outstanding amount may also be greater than zero (but less than the total amount of the instruction line item).
The "Transferred" status is specific to an integrated financial environment. It denotes an instruction line item which has been sent to the ERP system for further processing.
Additionally, all instruction line items have a category and a type. The category and type can be used by the ERP system to group together instruction line items that are to be rolled up into one financial transaction, e.g., payment, liability.
A table listing all the instruction line item types is provided in the Cúram Financials Guide.