invoice

Normally a purchase order would be issued before an invoice, typically within 30 days, but in this instance, purchase orders were generated after receiving invoices, due to standing off budget availability over several months.

“On that explanation, a purchase order would be issued before an invoice... ordinarily, a purchase order must be issued within 30 days... The invoice will be received, it will then be captured in the system, and a purchase order will be generated... in this instance, we had to do all seven months at once... ideally, it could have happened in May, June, July... all of this happened at once, as a result of it not happening throughout the six months of the financial year.”