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''Credit transfer.''
An intra-day exposure of a bank when account is in an overdraft position at any time during the business day vis-à-vis credit extended for a period of less than one business day.  


1.
Daylight credit may be extended by central banks to even out mismatches in the settlement of payments.  
One of the primary statements of a reporting entity's financial accounts. 
The balance sheet lists the assets, liabilities and shareholders’ funds at the balance sheet date.


Under the 'double entry' accounting convention, assets are Debits (DR) and liabilities and shareholders' funds are Credits (CR).
In a credit transfer system with end-of-day final settlement, daylight credit is tacitly extended by a receiving institution if it accepts and acts on a payment order even though it will not receive final funds until the end of the business day.


The standard UK balance sheet presentation for external reporting is Net Assets = Shareholders' Funds.
Also known as Daylight overdraft, Daylight exposure, or Intra-day credit.


The Net assets part of the balance sheet is sometimes called the 'top half'.
== See also ==
The Shareholders' funds part being the 'bottom half'.
* [[Credit]]
 
   
For example in summary:
<pre>
TOP HALF:
Assets 100  DR
- Liabilities (20) CR
= Net assets   80  DR
 
BOTTOM HALF:
Shareholders’ funds 80 CR
</pre>
(Total shareholders' funds being appropriately detailed in turn into share capital and reserves, as well as the individual assets and liabilities being appropriately listed in fuller detail.)
 
The balance sheet equation in summary using the convention above is 80 = 80.
 
2.
There are many other ways to present this information in other balance sheet formats.
Alternative balance sheet conventions maintain the balanced/double-entry principle, but may show for example:
 
Total Assets = Total Liabilities + Shareholders' Funds.


Presented on this alternative (assets = liabilities) basis, using the same summary figures:
<pre>
TOP HALF:
Total assets   100 DR
BOTTOM HALF:
Total liabilities   20 CR
+ Shareholders’ funds     80 CR
= Total liabilities & shareholders’ funds 100 CR
</pre>
The same balance sheet information has now been presented as 100 = 100, using the alternative convention.
The Total liabilities of 20 CR are now presented in the bottom half of the balance sheet (rather than in the top half as before).
The choice of presentation will depend on the purposes for which the balance sheet information is required, together with any rules or conventions applying to the entity's external reporting.
== See also ==
* [[Assets]]
* [[Balance sheet exposure]]
* [[Cashflow statement]]
* [[Credit balance]]
* [[Current/non-current method]]
* [[Debit balance]]
* [[Double entry]]
* [[Event after the balance sheet date]]
* [[Financial statements]]
* [[Income statement]]
* [[Liabilities]]
* [[Off balance sheet]]
* [[Off-balance sheet finance]]
* [[Post balance sheet event]]
* [[Profit and Loss account]]
* [[Share capital]]
* [[Shareholders’ funds]]
* [[Short term]]
* [[Statement of financial position]]

Revision as of 14:19, 23 October 2012

Credit transfer. An intra-day exposure of a bank when account is in an overdraft position at any time during the business day vis-à-vis credit extended for a period of less than one business day.

Daylight credit may be extended by central banks to even out mismatches in the settlement of payments.

In a credit transfer system with end-of-day final settlement, daylight credit is tacitly extended by a receiving institution if it accepts and acts on a payment order even though it will not receive final funds until the end of the business day.

Also known as Daylight overdraft, Daylight exposure, or Intra-day credit.

See also