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PAYMENT CLERK [7 records]

Record 1 2015-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Execution of Work (Construction)
DEF

[direct labour] The employment of building tradesmen and labourers by the client or his agent (engineer or architect) directly, without the mediation of a contractor.

DEF

[daywork] A method of payment for building work, involving agreement between the clerk of works and the contractor on the hours of work done by each man, and the materials used. Proof of this agreement is shown by the clerk of works's signature of the contractor's day-sheets. Payment to the contractor consists of his expenses in labour and materials, plus an agreed percentage for overheads and profit. Daywork is cost-plus percentage payment on a small scale.

CONT

Construction by day labor. With this type of building operation, the owner recruits his own labor force, pays for all labor, materials, subcontractors, rentals and equipment, and all other expenses ... He may, through his architect, hire the services of an engineer. He would recruit the services of a superintendent. He may even hire the complete services of a building contractor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Exécution des travaux de construction
DEF

Mode d'exécution de travaux caractérisé par le fait que le maître de l'ouvrage exécute des travaux sous sa propre direction et sa propre responsabilité.

CONT

Les travaux en régie sont [...] ceux dont l'exécution est dirigée par le client, sous son entière responsabilité, avec des moyens mis à sa disposition par l'entrepreneur. [...] Le processus est [...] sensiblement le même que pour les dépenses contrôlées, à ceci près que [...] le contrôle de certains éléments de la dépense [...] est encore plus aisé pour le maître d'œuvre, [...] les coefficients de majoration sont plus faibles [...] En outre le régime fiscal est différent [...]

Key term(s)
  • dépenses contrôlées

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Business and Administrative Documents
  • Legal Actions
  • Practice and Procedural Law
DEF

An extraordinary document by which a debtor authorizes his or her creditor’s attorney to enter a confession in court that allows judgment against the debtor.

CONT

A creditor may ask the borrower to sign a cognovit note when credit is extended. If the debtor falls into arrears the creditor can obtain a judgment against the person without notification to the debtor. There is usually little the debtor can do to attack the judgment when it is discovered.

CONT

Judgment note. A promissory note authorizing an attorney, holder, or clerk of court to appear for the maker of the note and confess, or assent to, a judgment to be entered against the maker due to default in the payment of the amount owed. A judgment note is also called a cognovit note and is invalid in many states.

OBS

Cognovit [L., he has acknowledged.] (Law) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff’s demand to be just.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
  • Actions en justice
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

Le ministre acquiesce par écrit à cette demande, en date du 9 septembre 1997. Une copie certifiée conforme de la résolution ainsi qu'une copie de la lettre d'acquiescement ont été produites, en liasse, sous la cote I-1.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Travel Agencies
CONT

Cancellations of bookings and packaged trips can be made. Unconfirmed and unpaid bookings are simply deleted. Where some payment has already been made to the provider, the refund is determined. If a refund applies, then the booking clerk advises the provider of the cancellation and forwards a cancellation advice. This, together with any travel agency commission, is returned to the consumer. Each cancellation is for booking only, or one packaged trip only.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Agences de voyage
CONT

Sur le marché du travail dans l'industrie touristique, les finissants de ce programme seront appelés à occuper des postes tels que [...] agent ou préposé aux réservations.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
  • Operating Systems (Software)
OBS

Parking an invoice allows you to enter and store(park) the incomplete document without carrying out extensive entry checks. Later the parked invoice can be completed, checked and then posted and, if necessary, by a different data entry clerk. By using payment requests, parked invoices can be paid on time and with full cash discount. The advantage of parking an invoice is that the data can be evaluated online for reporting purposes from the moment it is parked.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
OBS

Le préenregistrement d'une facture rend possible la saisie et la mémorisation (préenregistrement) de la pièce partielle sans passer par de longs processus de contrôle des entrées. Plus tard, la facture préenregistrées peut être complétée, vérifiée et comptabilisée, s'il le faut, par un autre préposé à la saisie. En employant des demandes de paiement, les factures préenregistrées peuvent être réglées à temps net des escomptes. L'avantage de préenregistrer une facture tient au fait que les données peuvent être dès lors valorisées en ligne pour fins d'analyses.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

If your Source document is being requested from a Downline System, you will have to access the Enquiries Screen of the Payment Master Database to retrieve the Image Address ID required by the Clerk in Document Control.

OBS

Terminology used at Revenue Canada (Termicom).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Terminologie en usage à Revenu Canada.

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

If your Source document is being requested from a Downline System, you will have to access the Enquiries Screen of the Payment Master Database to retrieve the Image Address ID required by the Clerk in Document Control.

OBS

Terminology used at Revenue Canada (Termicom).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Terminologie en usage à Revenu Canada.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Government Accounting
CONT

[The allotment control clerk verifies that] a sufficient balance to make the payment or settlement is immediately available in the appropriation or account to which the payment or settlement is to be charged...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Comptabilité publique

Spanish

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