Architectural design for manual invoicing application software

A system, comprising:

• a computer system comprising one or more hardware platforms for executing a computer software application;
• a plurality of process components, each of the process components being a package of software implementing a respective and distinct business process, the plurality of process components including:
• a due item processing process component that collects, manages, and monitors trade receivables or payables and corresponding sales tax or withholding tax;
• a project processing process component that structures, plans, and executes simple, short-term measures and complex projects;
• a balance of foreign payment management process component that collects, processes, and reports receivables and payables according to foreign trade regulations to create a balance of payments of a country;
• a payment processing process component that processes and manages payments and conducts communications with financial institutions;
• a customer invoice processing process component that processes invoicing of customers for delivery of goods or provision of services;
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• an accounting process component that processes business transactions for valuation and profitability analysis;
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• a plurality of service operations, each service operation being implemented for a respective process component, the operations comprising inbound and outbound operations, the outbound operation for a first process component being operable to send a message to a second process component of the plurality of process components, the second process component having an inbound operation for receiving the message, the passing of messages between an inbound and an outbound operation defining a message-based pair-wise interaction between the respective process components of the respective operations, the pair-wise interactions between pairs of the process components including interactions between:
• the due item processing process component and a due item processing at business partner process component;
• the accounting coding block distribution processing process component and the project processing process component;
• the payment processing process component and the due item processing process component;
• the customer invoice processing process component and the accounting process component;
• a bank statement creation at bank process component and the payment processing process component;
• the due item processing process component and the customer invoice processing process component;
• the customer invoice processing process component and the balance of foreign payment management process component;
• the payment processing process component and a payment processing at business partner process component;
• the payment processing process component and a payment order processing at house bank process component;
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• the customer invoice processing process component and a supplier invoice processing at customer process component.

A method for developing a computer software application, comprising:

• obtaining in a computer system digital data representing an architectural design for a set of processes implementing an end-to-end application process, the design specifying a process component for each process in the set of processes and the design further specifying a set of process component interactions, wherein
• the specified process components include:
• a due item processing process component that collects, manages, and monitors trade receivables or payables and corresponding sales tax or withholding tax;
• a project processing process component that structures, plans, and executes simple, short-term measures and complex projects;
• a balance of foreign payment management process component that collects, processes, and reports receivables and payables according to foreign trade regulations to create a balance of payments of a country;
• a payment processing process component that processes and manages payments and conducts communications with financial institutions;
• a customer invoice processing process component that processes invoicing of customers for delivery of goods or provision of services;
• and
• an accounting process component that processes business transactions for valuation and profitability analysis;
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• the process component interactions include interactions between:
• the due item processing process component and a due item processing at business partner process component;
• the accounting coding block distribution processing process component and the project processing process component;
• the payment processing process component and the due item processing process component;
• the customer invoice processing process component and the accounting process component;
• a bank statement creation at bank process component and the payment processing process component;
• the due item processing process component and the customer invoice processing process component;
• the customer invoice processing process component and the balance of foreign payment management process component;
• the payment processing process component and a payment processing at business partner process component;
• the payment processing process component and a payment order processing at house bank process component;
• and
• the customer invoice processing process component and a supplier invoice processing at customer process component;
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• using the design including the specified process components and specified process component interactions to develop a computer software application to perform the set of processes.