Quick Start Guide

Get your CS Lucas Essentials account up and ready with help from this quick-start user guide.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Section 1 Background

Section 2 Overview

Section 3 Master Data Set Up

Currency
Accounting Centre
Accounting Centre Group
Counterparty
User Group
User and Assign User Group
Facility

Section 4 Book Transaction

Money Market
Term Loan
Foreign Exchange
Non-Deliverable Forward
Interest Rate Swap
Options
Contingent Liability
Call/Sweep
Hedging
Trade Request

Section 5 Tips and Tricks

SECTION 1 BACKGROUND

This quick start guide explains the steps required for booking a trade in CS Lucas system.

To learn about cash forecasting, click here.

To learn about Fund Management – Investment, click here.

We strongly recommend you spend a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the content of this quick start guide as it links to more details information as you progress.

We suggest that you navigate around the system and read the context guide for details of use; click on the icon on the top right corner to access help specific to the feature of that page.

SECTION 2 OVERVIEW

*Transactions in CS Lucas system are Money Market, Term Loan, Foreign Exchange, Non-Deliverable Forward, Interest Rate Swap, Options, Contingent Liability, Call/ Sweep, Hedging and Trade Request.

This flow chart illustrates an overview of some pre-requisites set ups and dependencies between the modules in CS Lucas system for a first time-through set up to book transactions.

Each of these modules is explained in section 3 and 4 below.

SECTION 3 MASTER DATA SET UP

Currency

Purpose: To have a new currency to trade with.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Maintaining Currency
Maintaining Currency Pair*

Note*: Required only if you are booking Foreign Exchange or Non-Deliverable Forward transactions.

Accounting Centre

Purpose: To have a new accounting centre to trade with.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Maintaining Accounting Centre

To enable/ use the newly created accounting centre in the system, ensure the accounting centre is approved and is assigned to accounting centre group that is tagged to your assigned user access group. Please see below step to assign to accounting centre group.

Accounting Centre Group

Purpose: To facilitate the control of access rights of accounting centres that users can access/view and for reporting purposes.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Create Accounting Centre Groups and Assign Members

Note: This is required for creating user group.

Counterparty

Purpose: To have a new counterparty to trade with.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Maintaining Counterparty

User Group

Purpose: Define user roles by assigning permissions to user group.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Maintaining User Groups and Assigning Permissions

Note: There is no pre-defined user roles in the system.

User and Assign User Group

Purpose: To create a new user and assign user group.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Maintaining Users and Assigned Groups

Facility

Purpose: To have a facility to trade between accounting centre and counterparty.

Transactions entered by an accounting centre with a counterparty or another accounting centre are governed by terms and conditions such as product, dealing limits, fees etc. The terms are set out in CS Lucas under Facility.

Please check out the following user guides regarding

Maintaining Facility and Limit

Note: This is not required for Hedging and Trade Request transaction.

SECTION 4 BOOK TRANSACTION

Pre-requisites: Ensure all the master data in Section 3 are set up before proceeding to book transaction.

Money Market Transactions

Purpose: The CS Lucas Money Market module is used for booking borrowing transactions under a revolving credit terms or placement transaction such as a term deposit.