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IC Activity - Current Solutions & Workarounds

Tools & Systems

Kyriba Cash Pool Setup

  • What it is: Cash pooling configuration in TMS
  • How they use it: Define master and participant accounts
  • Limitations: Doesn't forecast sweeps, doesn't filter view for pool accounts, no proper category
  • Used by: ON

Manual Account Naming

  • What it is: Naming convention to identify pool membership
  • How they use it: Named accounts as "Cash Pool Master" or "Participant" in Kyriba
  • Limitations: No system-level classification, just visual indicator
  • Used by: ON

Manual Workarounds

Knowing the Pool Structure

  • What they do: Treasury team mentally knows which accounts are pooled and ignores their negatives
  • Why: No system filter to show only non-pooled account balances
  • Source: ON (2025-11-17)

Description-Based Classification

  • What they do: Use transaction descriptions to differentiate sweep types (automatic vs manual, interest vs principal)
  • Why: Different IC transactions have different descriptions
  • Source: ON (2025-11-17)

Proposed Approaches (from Palm Internal Discussion, 2026-02-02)

Counterparty Account Connection

  • Concept: If sender/receiver account is known internal entity, automatically flag as IC
  • Benefit: Solves "Is this intercompany?" question definitively
  • Requirement: Need account-to-entity mapping in place
  • Note: Also enables FX vs non-FX IC distinction (if currencies differ, it's FX IC)

Rule-Based + LLM Hybrid Approach

  • Concept: Use rules to identify IC transactions, then narrow LLM categories
  • How: If counterparty = internal entity, only show IC category options to the LLM
  • Benefit: More accurate categorization by reducing category search space
  • Source: Giannis: "Trigger the LLM to say you don't have to filter to a big list of categories, but only to these four intercompany categories"

Merchant Field Leverage

  • Concept: Merchant field often contains counterparty info that could help identify IC
  • Status: Not currently being leveraged for IC identification
  • Source: Jennifer: "The merchant field... is quite helpful for intercompany"

Influencing Payment Details

  • Concept: Encourage treasury teams to add better details in payment descriptions
  • Rationale: Treasury teams control most non-cost-plus IC payments; they can add keywords
  • Quote: "We should be able to influence the treasury teams to change the details in the payments to capture some word that allows our models to say this is intercompany dividend." - Gurjit