ADM.10:1 - Problem frame

The handler is comparing what one participant owed another, what actually happened and what the participants recorded. Those may be three different claims about related subjects. A record may describe an instruction, debit, credit, allocation or case closure; each can have a different effective or recording time.

The obligation’s fulfillment condition must be known. Issuing an instruction, crediting a recipient, accepting a deliverable and making a resource usable can be different conditions. The handler cannot infer which condition discharges an obligation from the most convenient system status.

Participant-relative descriptions remain legitimate. A payer’s outgoing payment and a recipient’s incoming receipt can concern the same transfer. ADM.4 supplies their correspondence when needed; this pattern then determines what that event establishes about the particular obligation.