ADM.10:4 - Solution
ADM.10:4.1 - Fix the obligation and the question being answered
Identify who owes what to whom, for which subject, quantity or usable condition, purpose and relevant time. Recover the operative agreement, decision or rule and its actual fulfillment condition. Include a change, suspension, allocation or permitted offset only when it matters to this obligation.
State the receiving question: whether the obligation was fulfilled by a particular date, what is still established as outstanding, why two accounts differ, or which corrective action is now needed. A historical statement and a present payment decision may require different evidence.
If the fulfillment rule is unavailable or disputed, obtain its competent interpretation. A ledger label cannot supply the missing rule. Use ADM.3 for a material effective-time question.
ADM.10:4.2 - Align the claims before comparing them
Recover what each record asserts and what evidence supports actual performance. Establish event identity and participant correspondence through ADM.4 when needed. Use SIE.4–6 for a genuine unresolved source-meaning or identity question.
Match quantities, units, direction, gross or net basis, allocation, observation time and coverage where those distinctions can change the conclusion. A debit from the payer and a credit to the recipient may be different observations of a transfer. Two identical amounts may instead belong to two different transfers.
OPS.15 supplies comparison of observations for matching subjects and bases when that operational comparison is needed. It does not determine the obligation’s fulfillment rule. Once the claims are adequately aligned, compare them directly without constructing an unnecessary shared database.
ADM.10:4.3 - Apply the fulfillment rule to established performance
Determine which evidenced effects satisfy which part of the obligation under the supplied rule. Keep the actual event, evidence of it and institutional consequence distinct. A later report can improve knowledge of an earlier credit without making the credit occur on the report date.
Distinguish at least the differences that change the next action:
| Difference | What must be resolved |
|---|---|
| Meaning or identity | Whether the records concern comparable claims about the same subject or event. |
| Time or coverage | Whether one account is earlier, later or covers a different interval or subset. |
| Quantity or condition | Whether established performance meets the amount or usable condition actually owed. |
| Authority or allocation | Whether the governing decision permits the claimed change, correction, offset or application. |
| Unknown effect | Whether an earlier action actually supplied any of the condition; missing evidence is not proof of nonperformance. |
A known fulfilled part and an uncertain remainder can coexist. Report each with its basis. Do not infer that a whole obligation is settled merely because the case record is closed, or that an uncertain remainder is definitely unpaid.
ADM.10:4.4 - Select the correction that matches the discrepancy
For a recording defect with adequate performance evidence, obtain the authorized correction and retain the needed connection to the original event and prior account. Correcting a description does not undo or repeat the historical action. If the governing rule gives a recording act a constitutive effect, apply that rule explicitly.
For established missing performance, identify the provider action and permission actually required to complete it. ADM.8 supplies a live permission inquiry; ADM.9 supplies provision. A handler authorized to edit a case record is not thereby authorized to issue payment or amend the obligation.
For an unknown earlier effect, first recover the same attempt through its competent provider. If the effect occurred, reconcile and correct the account. If it did not occur, use the applicable authorized continuation. If it remains unknown, preserve that uncertainty and the next recovery action before any repetition that could duplicate performance.
A real dispute about the obligation or its interpretation returns through ADM.6 to its competent decision maker. The reconciliation cannot settle that dispute by choosing one participant’s preferred record.
ADM.10:4.5 - Return the reconciled account and remaining action
Give the participants the bounded conclusion, material basis and any unresolved difference. Retain each participant’s correct account and explain its correspondence where a common event is used.
A small case may finish with a short note: the named obligation was fulfilled by the confirmed effect at the relevant time, and the record has been corrected by the authorized handler. An unresolved case needs the precise missing claim, its competent recipient and the action that depends on it.
Reopen only the affected conclusion when new evidence, a corrected meaning, a valid changed obligation or a relevant effective-time fact arrives. Do not reopen unrelated reconciled cases merely because the same provider supplied the new information.