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The core idea, ported into SAP: instead of every subsidiary transacting externally through its own accounts, they hold ",[38,39,40],"em",{},"internal"," accounts with a central in-house bank, and the group settles with itself before it settles with the outside world.",[43,44,46],"h2",{"id":45},"what-it-is","What it is",[14,48,49,50,53,54,57],{},"IHC turns a central entity into a ",[17,51,52],{},"virtual bank inside SAP",". It maintains internal current accounts for participating subsidiaries, processes transactions across them, applies interest, and produces statements for those internal accounts — much as an external bank would, but internally. 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Every internal transaction and on-behalf-of payment generates intercompany balances that have to be tracked, reconciled and settled, with interest at proper rates and the ",[21,147,149],{"href":148},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdebt-and-investment-management-in-treasury","transfer-pricing"," and tax implications handled. 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Instead of every subsidiary transacting externally through its own bank accounts, they hold internal accounts with the in-house bank, which handles internal settlement and, where used, external payments on their behalf. It's the SAP implementation of the in-house bank concept, and it underpins payments-on-behalf-of and internal netting inside SAP.",{"question":233,"answer":234},"How does SAP In-House Cash work?","IHC acts as a virtual bank inside SAP: it maintains internal current accounts for participating subsidiaries, and processes transactions across them — internal payments between group entities, and payments made on behalf of subsidiaries to external parties. Subsidiaries' positions are held as internal account balances (intercompany balances), interest can be applied, and statements are produced for the internal accounts much as an external bank would. 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